On 2017/2/18 00:10, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c > index 9921f70bc5ca..4916ccff29f5 100644 > --- a/fs/open.c > +++ b/fs/open.c > @@ -762,6 +762,8 @@ static int do_dentry_open(struct file *f, > if ((f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) && > likely(f->f_op->write || f->f_op->write_iter)) > f->f_mode |= FMODE_CAN_WRITE; > + if (unlikely(d_inode(f->f_path.dentry) != inode)) > + f->f_mode |= FMODE_OVERLAY; Can we just add flag to the "readonly && not copied" file, not all overlayfs files? Beacuse we just want to check the ro file before copied-up. > f->f_flags &= ~(O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_NOCTTY | O_TRUNC); > > diff --git a/fs/overlay_util.c b/fs/overlay_util.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0daff19bad0b > --- /dev/null > +++ b/fs/overlay_util.c > @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ > +/* > + * Copyright (C) 2017 Red Hat, Inc. > + * > + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > +it > + * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as > +published by > + * the Free Software Foundation. > + */ > +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OVERLAY_FS) > + > +#include <linux/overlay_util.h> > +#include <linux/fs.h> > +#include <linux/file.h> > +#include "internal.h" > + > +static bool overlay_file_consistent(struct file *file) { > + return d_real_inode(file->f_path.dentry) == file_inode(file); } > + > +ssize_t overlay_read_iter(struct file *file, struct kiocb *kio, > + struct iov_iter *iter) > +{ > + ssize_t ret; > + > + if (likely(overlay_file_consistent(file))) > + return file->f_op->read_iter(kio, iter); > + > + file = filp_clone_open(file); > + if (IS_ERR(file)) > + return PTR_ERR(file); > + > + ret = vfs_iter_read(file, iter, &kio->ki_pos); > + fput(file); > + > + return ret; > +} > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(overlay_read_iter); Can we try to replace the old file with the new file, and then clear the f_mode flag we added? If so, we can avoid opening file for each reading call and avoid copied file consistency check. Thanks. zhangyi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-unionfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html