fs: Use rename lock and RCU for multi-step operations

The remaining usages for dcache_lock is to allow atomic, multi-step read-side
operations over the directory tree by excluding modifications to the tree.
Also, to walk in the leaf->root direction in the tree where we don't have
a natural d_lock ordering.

This could be accomplished by taking every d_lock, but this would mean a
huge number of locks and actually gets very tricky.

Solve this instead by using the rename seqlock for multi-step read-side
operations, retry in case of a rename so we don't walk up the wrong parent.
Concurrent dentry insertions are not serialised against.  Concurrent deletes
are tricky when walking up the directory: our parent might have been deleted
when dropping locks so also need to check and retry for that.

We can also use the rename lock in cases where livelock is a worry (and it
is introduced in subsequent patch).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index bda5ec0b077d..c963ebada922 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ struct dentry_operations {
 #define DCACHE_FSNOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED  0x0080 /* Parent inode is watched by some fsnotify listener */
 
 #define DCACHE_CANT_MOUNT       0x0100
+#define DCACHE_GENOCIDE         0x0200
 
 extern spinlock_t dcache_inode_lock;
 extern spinlock_t dcache_lock;