Re: [PATCH v2] vfs: Don't exchange "short" filenames unconditionally.

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 12:39:02PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > But yeah, I guess we can/should do the trivial ugly thing for 3.17.
> > Send me a proper pull-request,
> 
> .. and if it can happen before tomorrow, that would be good. I had to
> give up on my wish to release 3.17 tomorrow due to the current size of
> changes anyway, so there will be a rc7 (and my travel inconveniences
> be damned), but I'd like this to be in that rc7. Works for you?

Fine by me.  How about that s-o-b?  Right now it's

commit 4f78a56cd96a3d421852b5a03e10355b0cbe764b
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Wed Sep 24 12:27:39 2014 -0700

    fold swapping ->d_name.hash into switch_names()
    
    and do it along with ->d_name.len there
    
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 92f7d76..7599d35 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -2412,7 +2412,7 @@ static void switch_names(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *target)
                        }
                }
        }
-       swap(dentry->d_name.len, target->d_name.len);
+       swap(dentry->d_name.hash_len, target->d_name.hash_len);
 }
 
 static void dentry_lock_for_move(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *target)
@@ -2510,7 +2510,6 @@ static void __d_move(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *target,
 
        /* Switch the names.. */
        switch_names(dentry, target);
-       swap(dentry->d_name.hash, target->d_name.hash);
 
        /* ... and switch them in the tree */
        if (IS_ROOT(dentry)) {