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| author | Al Viro | 2011-03-10 05:04:47 +0100 |
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| committer | Al Viro | 2011-03-14 14:15:27 +0100 |
| commit | 5b6ca027d85b7438c84b78a54ccdc2e53f2909cd (patch) | |
| tree | e35b870101fbc6a2ea6e0399429d9c23707697f3 /arch/sparc/mm/srmmu.c | |
| parent | untangle do_lookup() (diff) | |
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reduce vfs_path_lookup() to do_path_lookup()
New lookup flag: LOOKUP_ROOT. nd->root is set (and held) by caller,
path_init() starts walking from that place and all pathname resolution
machinery never drops nd->root if that flag is set. That turns
vfs_path_lookup() into a special case of do_path_lookup() *and*
gets us down to 3 callers of link_path_walk(), making it finally
feasible to rip the handling of trailing symlink out of link_path_walk().
That will not only simply the living hell out of it, but make life
much simpler for unionfs merge. Trailing symlink handling will
become iterative, which is a good thing for stack footprint in
a lot of situations as well.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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