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ovl: decide if revalidate needed on a per-dentry basis
Allow completely skipping ->revalidate() on a per-dentry basis, in case the
underlying layers used for a dentry do not themselves have ->revalidate().
E.g. negative overlay dentry has no underlying layers, hence revalidate is
unnecessary. Or if lower layer is remote but overlay dentry is pure-upper,
then can skip revalidate.
The following places need to update whether the dentry needs revalidate or
not:
- fill-super (root dentry)
- lookup
- create
- fh_to_dentry
Signed-off-by:
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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- fs/overlayfs/dir.c 3 additions, 0 deletionsfs/overlayfs/dir.c
- fs/overlayfs/export.c 2 additions, 0 deletionsfs/overlayfs/export.c
- fs/overlayfs/namei.c 3 additions, 0 deletionsfs/overlayfs/namei.c
- fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h 2 additions, 0 deletionsfs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
- fs/overlayfs/super.c 5 additions, 16 deletionsfs/overlayfs/super.c
- fs/overlayfs/util.c 15 additions, 0 deletionsfs/overlayfs/util.c
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