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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-12 19:35:47 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-12 19:35:47 +0200
commit8b19e34188a32d63a7da94ea8a3f5e39b0c66050 (patch)
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parentvfs: move get_fs_root_and_pwd() to single caller (diff)
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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>
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