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Ian Kent c7e7c04274 kernfs: use VFS negative dentry caching
If there are many lookups for non-existent paths these negative lookups
can lead to a lot of overhead during path walks.

The VFS allows dentries to be created as negative and hashed, and caches
them so they can be used to reduce the fairly high overhead alloc/free
cycle that occurs during these lookups.

Use the kernfs node parent revision to identify if a change has been
made to the containing directory so that the negative dentry can be
discarded and the lookup redone.

Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/162642770420.63632.15791924970508867106.stgit@web.messagingengine.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-07-27 09:29:14 +02:00
arch Merge 5.14-rc3 into driver-core-next 2021-07-27 09:22:08 +02:00
block block-5.14-2021-07-08 2021-07-09 12:05:33 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-07-09 11:00:44 -07:00
Documentation userfaultfd: do not untag user pointers 2021-07-23 17:43:28 -07:00
drivers Merge 5.14-rc3 into driver-core-next 2021-07-27 09:22:08 +02:00
fs kernfs: use VFS negative dentry caching 2021-07-27 09:29:14 +02:00
include kernfs: add a revision to identify directory node changes 2021-07-27 09:29:14 +02:00
init Revert "mm/slub: use stackdepot to save stack trace in objects" 2021-07-17 13:27:00 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-07-02 12:08:10 -07:00
kernel smpboot: fix duplicate and misplaced inlining directive 2021-07-25 11:06:37 -07:00
lib lib/test_hmm: remove set but unused page variable 2021-07-15 10:13:49 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm mm: fix the deadlock in finish_fault() 2021-07-23 17:43:28 -07:00
net net: sched: cls_api: Fix the the wrong parameter 2021-07-22 00:48:03 -07:00
samples Networking fixes for 5.14-rc2, including fixes from bpf and netfilter. 2021-07-14 09:24:32 -07:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v5.14 2021-07-18 11:10:30 -07:00
security asm-generic/unaligned: Unify asm/unaligned.h around struct helper 2021-07-02 12:43:40 -07:00
sound Merge 5.14-rc3 into driver-core-next 2021-07-27 09:22:08 +02:00
tools Merge 5.14-rc3 into driver-core-next 2021-07-27 09:22:08 +02:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt * Allow again loading KVM on 32-bit non-PAE builds 2021-07-15 11:56:07 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap m68k updates for v5.14 2021-06-28 14:01:03 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: move Murali Karicheri to credits 2021-04-29 15:47:30 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Char/Misc fixes for 5.14-rc3 2021-07-23 10:14:56 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.14-rc3 2021-07-25 15:35:14 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.