Hello, Serge. On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:17:45PM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > Wouldn't it be simpler to walk dentry from kernfs root than > > duplicating dentry instantiation? > > Sorry I don't think I'm following. Are you suggesting walking the > kn->parent chain backward and doing d_lookup() at each point starting > with sb->s_root?
Yeah, something like that. I wonder whether there are already code paths doing that. What we need is a straight path walk. I could be wrong but it shouldn't be that complex and if it works out we can avoid introducing another instantiation / lookup path. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
