Quoting Trond Myklebust (Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx):
> On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 15:13 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting Trond Myklebust (Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx):
> > > The purpose of this patch is to improve the remote mount path lookup
> > > support for distributed filesystems such as the NFSv4 client.
> > >
> > > When given a mount command of the form "mount server:/foo/bar /mnt", the
> > > NFSv4 client is required to look up the filehandle for "server:/", and
> > > then look up each component of the remote mount path "foo/bar" in order
> > > to find the directory that is actually going to be mounted on /mnt.
> > > Following that remote mount path may involve following symlinks,
> > > crossing server-side mount points and even following referrals to
> > > filesystem volumes on other servers.
> > >
> > > Since the standard VFS path lookup code already supports walking paths
> > > that contain all these features (using in-kernel automounts for
> > > following referrals) we would like to be able to reuse that rather than
> > > duplicate the full path traversal functionality in the NFSv4 client code.
> > >
> > > This patch therefore defines a VFS helper function create_mnt_ns(), that
> > > sets up a temporary filesystem namespace and attaches a root filesystem to
> > > it. It exports the create_mnt_ns() and put_mnt_ns() function for use by
> > > filesystem modules.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This looks good, thanks. Though I see no reason not to also switch over
> > init_mount_tree() to the new helper.
> >
> > (Seems plausible that c/r code would use this as well)
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > thanks,
> > -serge
>
> Thanks for the review! I missed the code duplication in
> init_mount_tree(). Something like the following?
Yup.
(it keeps bugging me that the order of args to list_add() gets reversed
as a result, but clearly with both starting out empty it doesn't
matter..)
thanks,
-serge
> Cheers
> Trond
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
> VFS: Switch init_mount_tree() to use the new create_mnt_ns() helper
>
> Eliminates some duplicated code...
>
> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> fs/namespace.c | 11 ++---------
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
>
> diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
> index a7bea8c..4a86b85 100644
> --- a/fs/namespace.c
> +++ b/fs/namespace.c
> @@ -2222,16 +2222,9 @@ static void __init init_mount_tree(void)
> mnt = do_kern_mount("rootfs", 0, "rootfs", NULL);
> if (IS_ERR(mnt))
> panic("Can't create rootfs");
> - ns = kmalloc(sizeof(*ns), GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!ns)
> + ns = create_mnt_ns(mnt);
> + if (IS_ERR(ns))
> panic("Can't allocate initial namespace");
> - atomic_set(&ns->count, 1);
> - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ns->list);
> - init_waitqueue_head(&ns->poll);
> - ns->event = 0;
> - list_add(&mnt->mnt_list, &ns->list);
> - ns->root = mnt;
> - mnt->mnt_ns = ns;
>
> init_task.nsproxy->mnt_ns = ns;
> get_mnt_ns(ns);
>
>
> --
> Trond Myklebust
> Linux NFS client maintainer
>
> NetApp
> Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx
> www.netapp.com
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