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vfs: make getcwd() get the root and pwd path under rcu
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 17:35:47 +0000 (10:35 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 17:35:47 +0000 (10:35 -0700)
commit59ebeeaee58419ae213bb296a4b23d429078ce13
treeb6affbe820569551bebfd39cc07965855080d2c1
parent73aaf340178bce032c2feb711d22bd6d7d9b94a5
vfs: make getcwd() get the root and pwd path under rcu

This allows us to skip all the crazy spinlocks and reference count
updates, and instead use the fs sequence read-lock to get an atomic
snapshot of the root and cwd information.

We might want to make the rule that "prepend_path()" is always called
with the RCU lock held, but the RCU lock nests fine and this is the
minimal fix.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/dcache.c