Re: [PATCH] eventfs: Process deletion of dentry more thoroughly

2023-11-01 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 00:16:59 -0400 Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 02:25:53 + > Al Viro wrote: > > > Umm... Is there any reason not to use simple_recursive_removal() there? > > Hmm, I may be able to (I'm still a newbie with understanding of the vfs). > > I did it this way thi

Re: [PATCH] eventfs: Process deletion of dentry more thoroughly

2023-10-31 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 02:25:53 + Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 02:47:03PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" > > > > Looking at how dentry is removed via the tracefs system, I found that > > eventfs does not do everything that it did under tracefs. The

Re: [PATCH] eventfs: Process deletion of dentry more thoroughly

2023-10-31 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 02:47:03PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" > > Looking at how dentry is removed via the tracefs system, I found that > eventfs does not do everything that it did under tracefs. The tracefs > removal of a dentry calls simple_recursive_removal(

[PATCH] eventfs: Process deletion of dentry more thoroughly

2023-10-31 Thread Steven Rostedt
From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" Looking at how dentry is removed via the tracefs system, I found that eventfs does not do everything that it did under tracefs. The tracefs removal of a dentry calls simple_recursive_removal() that does a lot more than a simple d_invalidate(). Have the same done o