From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" rostedt@goodmis.org
The dentries and inodes are created in the readdir for the sole purpose of getting a consistent inode number. Linus stated that is unnecessary, and that all inodes can have the same inode number. For a virtual file system they are pretty meaningless.
Instead use a single unique inode number for all files and one for all directories.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240116133753.2808d45e@gandalf.local.home/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240116211353.412180363@goodmis....
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org Cc: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Cc: Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org Cc: Al Viro viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk Cc: Ajay Kaher ajay.kaher@broadcom.com Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org (cherry picked from commit 53c41052ba3121761e6f62a813961164532a214f) --- fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c index fdff53d5a1f8..5edf0b96758b 100644 --- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c +++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c @@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ */ static DEFINE_MUTEX(eventfs_mutex);
+/* Choose something "unique" ;-) */ +#define EVENTFS_FILE_INODE_INO 0x12c4e37 +#define EVENTFS_DIR_INODE_INO 0x134b2f5 + /* * The eventfs_inode (ei) itself is protected by SRCU. It is released from * its parent's list and will have is_freed set (under eventfs_mutex). @@ -352,6 +356,9 @@ static struct dentry *create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode, inode->i_fop = fop; inode->i_private = data;
+ /* All files will have the same inode number */ + inode->i_ino = EVENTFS_FILE_INODE_INO; + ti = get_tracefs(inode); ti->flags |= TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE; d_instantiate(dentry, inode); @@ -388,6 +395,9 @@ static struct dentry *create_dir(struct eventfs_inode *ei, struct dentry *parent inode->i_op = &eventfs_root_dir_inode_operations; inode->i_fop = &eventfs_file_operations;
+ /* All directories will have the same inode number */ + inode->i_ino = EVENTFS_DIR_INODE_INO; + ti = get_tracefs(inode); ti->flags |= TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE;