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eventfs: Have the inodes all for files and directories all be the same
authorSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tue, 6 Feb 2024 12:09:47 +0000 (07:09 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 23 Feb 2024 08:25:23 +0000 (09:25 +0100)
commit4e8731d20fbae8bb7c3e212777d876cbd9f5443e
treed7d7586bb519597293624e1843a7222cb3e7f645
parente638899f9963f8816efb8dd83df787230ac49e83
eventfs: Have the inodes all for files and directories all be the same

commit 53c41052ba3121761e6f62a813961164532a214f upstream.

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.org
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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/tracefs/event_inode.c