The following series implements stable directory offsets for
shmemfs/tmpfs and provides infrastructure for use by other file
systems that are based on simplefs.
Changes since v6:
- Add appropriate documentation
Changes since v5:
- Rename functions and structures
Changes since v4:
- Remove new fields from struct inode/dentry
- Remove EXPORT_SYMBOL and extern for new functions
- Try again to fix error handling for rename_exchange
Changes since v3:
- Rebased on v6.4
- Fixed error handling bugs
Changes since v2:
- Move bulk of stable offset support into fs/libfs.c
- Replace xa_find_after with xas_find_next for efficiency
Changes since v1:
- Break the single patch up into a series
Changes since RFC:
- Destroy xarray in shmem_destroy_inode() instead of free_in_core_inode()
- A few cosmetic updates
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Chuck Lever (3):
libfs: Add directory operations for stable offsets
shmem: Refactor shmem_symlink()
shmem: stable directory offsets
Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst | 2 +
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst | 6 +-
fs/libfs.c | 247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/fs.h | 18 ++
include/linux/shmem_fs.h | 1 +
mm/shmem.c | 62 +++++--
6 files changed, 320 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
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Chuck Lever
