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David Howells a4ff7401fb afs: Keep track of invalid-before version for dentry coherency
Each afs dentry is tagged with the version that the parent directory was at
last time it was validated and, currently, if this differs, the directory
is scanned and the dentry is refreshed.

However, this leads to an excessive amount of revalidation on directories
that get modified on the client without conflict with another client.  We
know there's no conflict because the parent directory's data version number
got incremented by exactly 1 on any create, mkdir, unlink, etc., therefore
we can trust the current state of the unaffected dentries when we perform a
local directory modification.

Optimise by keeping track of the last version of the parent directory that
was changed outside of the client in the parent directory's vnode and using
that to validate the dentries rather than the current version.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2018-04-09 21:53:59 +01:00
Documentation afs: Implement @sys substitution handling 2018-04-09 21:12:31 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
arch ARM: 2018-04-09 11:42:31 -07:00
block for-4.17/block-20180402 2018-04-05 14:27:02 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-04-04 17:11:08 -07:00
drivers ARM: 2018-04-09 11:42:31 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs afs: Keep track of invalid-before version for dentry coherency 2018-04-09 21:53:59 +01:00
include afs: Prospectively look up extra files when doing a single lookup 2018-04-09 21:12:31 +01:00
init This is the bulk of GPIO changes for the v4.17 kernel cycle: 2018-04-05 09:51:41 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-04-03 19:15:32 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2018-04-07 11:11:41 -07:00
lib powerpc updates for 4.17 2018-04-07 12:08:19 -07:00
mm powerpc updates for 4.17 2018-04-07 12:08:19 -07:00
net selinux/stable-4.17 PR 20180403 2018-04-06 15:39:26 -07:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.17-rc1 2018-04-06 19:44:27 -07:00
scripts Leaking-addresses patches for 4.17-rc1 2018-04-07 11:56:33 -07:00
security selinux: fix missing dput() before selinuxfs unmount 2018-04-09 11:52:56 -07:00
sound Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2018-04-05 11:56:35 -07:00
tools ARM: 2018-04-09 11:42:31 -07:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt KVM/ARM updates for v4.17 2018-03-28 16:09:09 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: move include/config/ksym/* to include/ksym/* 2018-03-26 02:01:23 +09:00
.mailmap Merge candidates for 4.17 merge window 2018-04-06 17:35:43 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS ARM: 2018-04-09 11:42:31 -07:00
Makefile Kconfig updates for v4.17 2018-04-03 16:28:01 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.