2007/12/18, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Dec 18 2007 15:10, wit wrote: > > > >1. What is the d_alloc_root used for? Actually, the question should > >be: why we have to call d_alloc_root. > > >I think the root already has its dentry, > > It does not. There's no dentry for the "/"? I mean the rootfs.
> > >why we have to allocate another while we mounting a file > >system? > > > >2. Why we call d_alloc_root to allocate a dentry for the mount point > >while the usual mount point of sysfs is defined by the user (something > >like /sysfs but not /). > > /sys is a dentry that belongs to the / vfsmount, but we need a > / that belongs to the <whatever you are going to mount> vfsmount. Why we need such a vfsmount (for the "/", not the rootfs)? And where we store the mount point info (path) when mount_root, s_root and the mnt_mountpoint are all points to the "/" which is allocated by d_alloc_root? Or do we have to store such info? Why? > > > See below: > > root = d_alloc_root(inode); > > if (!root) { > > pr_debug("%s: could not get root dentry!\n",__FUNCTION__); > > iput(inode); > > return -ENOMEM; > > } > > root->d_fsdata = &sysfs_root; > > sb->s_root = root; > > > >does this means settting the sysfs' mount point to "/" but not "/sysfs". > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/