From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, brauner@kernel.org, jack@suse.cz,
raven@themaw.net, miklos@szeredi.hu, neil@brown.name,
a.hindborg@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
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john.johansen@canonical.com, selinux@vger.kernel.org,
borntraeger@linux.ibm.com, bpf@vger.kernel.org, clm@meta.com
Subject: [PATCH v4 08/54] convert ramfs and tmpfs
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:15:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251118051604.3868588-9-viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251118051604.3868588-1-viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Quite a bit is already done by infrastructure changes (simple_link(),
simple_unlink()) - all that is left is replacing d_instantiate() +
pinning dget() (in ->symlink() and ->mknod()) with d_make_persistent(),
and, in case of shmem, using simple_unlink() and simple_link() in
->unlink() and ->link() resp., instead of open-coding those there.
Since d_make_persistent() accepts (and hashes) unhashed ones, shmem
situation gets simpler - we no longer care whether ->lookup() has hashed
the sucker.
With that done, we don't need kill_litter_super() for these filesystems
anymore - by the umount time all remaining dentries will be marked
persistent and kill_litter_super() will boil down to call of
kill_anon_super().
The same goes for devtmpfs and rootfs - they are handled by
ramfs or by shmem, depending upon config.
NB: strictly speaking, both devtmpfs and rootfs ought to use
ramfs_kill_sb() if they end up using ramfs; that's a separate
story and the only impact of "just use kill_{litter,anon}_super()"
is that we fail to free their sb->s_fs_info... on reboot.
That's orthogonal to the changes in this series - kill_litter_super()
is identical to kill_anon_super() for those at this point.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
drivers/base/devtmpfs.c | 2 +-
fs/ramfs/inode.c | 8 +++-----
init/do_mounts.c | 2 +-
mm/shmem.c | 38 ++++++++------------------------------
4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
index 9d4e46ad8352..a63b0ff0c432 100644
--- a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
+++ b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static struct file_system_type internal_fs_type = {
#else
.init_fs_context = ramfs_init_fs_context,
#endif
- .kill_sb = kill_litter_super,
+ .kill_sb = kill_anon_super,
};
/* Simply take a ref on the existing mount */
diff --git a/fs/ramfs/inode.c b/fs/ramfs/inode.c
index 41f9995da7ca..505d10a0cb36 100644
--- a/fs/ramfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ramfs/inode.c
@@ -110,8 +110,7 @@ ramfs_mknod(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
goto out;
}
- d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
- dget(dentry); /* Extra count - pin the dentry in core */
+ d_make_persistent(dentry, inode);
error = 0;
inode_set_mtime_to_ts(dir, inode_set_ctime_current(dir));
}
@@ -154,8 +153,7 @@ static int ramfs_symlink(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
error = page_symlink(inode, symname, l);
if (!error) {
- d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
- dget(dentry);
+ d_make_persistent(dentry, inode);
inode_set_mtime_to_ts(dir,
inode_set_ctime_current(dir));
} else
@@ -313,7 +311,7 @@ int ramfs_init_fs_context(struct fs_context *fc)
void ramfs_kill_sb(struct super_block *sb)
{
kfree(sb->s_fs_info);
- kill_litter_super(sb);
+ kill_anon_super(sb);
}
static struct file_system_type ramfs_fs_type = {
diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
index 6af29da8889e..810878fb55b6 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts.c
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ static int rootfs_init_fs_context(struct fs_context *fc)
struct file_system_type rootfs_fs_type = {
.name = "rootfs",
.init_fs_context = rootfs_init_fs_context,
- .kill_sb = kill_litter_super,
+ .kill_sb = kill_anon_super,
};
void __init init_rootfs(void)
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index b9081b817d28..a38f71519813 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -3858,12 +3858,7 @@ shmem_mknod(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
inode_set_mtime_to_ts(dir, inode_set_ctime_current(dir));
inode_inc_iversion(dir);
- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_UNICODE) && IS_CASEFOLDED(dir))
- d_add(dentry, inode);
- else
- d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
-
- dget(dentry); /* Extra count - pin the dentry in core */
+ d_make_persistent(dentry, inode);
return error;
out_iput:
@@ -3924,7 +3919,7 @@ static int shmem_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir,
struct dentry *dentry)
{
struct inode *inode = d_inode(old_dentry);
- int ret = 0;
+ int ret;
/*
* No ordinary (disk based) filesystem counts links as inodes;
@@ -3936,29 +3931,19 @@ static int shmem_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir,
if (inode->i_nlink) {
ret = shmem_reserve_inode(inode->i_sb, NULL);
if (ret)
- goto out;
+ return ret;
}
ret = simple_offset_add(shmem_get_offset_ctx(dir), dentry);
if (ret) {
if (inode->i_nlink)
shmem_free_inode(inode->i_sb, 0);
- goto out;
+ return ret;
}
dir->i_size += BOGO_DIRENT_SIZE;
- inode_set_mtime_to_ts(dir,
- inode_set_ctime_to_ts(dir, inode_set_ctime_current(inode)));
inode_inc_iversion(dir);
- inc_nlink(inode);
- ihold(inode); /* New dentry reference */
- dget(dentry); /* Extra pinning count for the created dentry */
- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_UNICODE) && IS_CASEFOLDED(dir))
- d_add(dentry, inode);
- else
- d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
-out:
- return ret;
+ return simple_link(old_dentry, dir, dentry);
}
static int shmem_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
@@ -3971,11 +3956,8 @@ static int shmem_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
simple_offset_remove(shmem_get_offset_ctx(dir), dentry);
dir->i_size -= BOGO_DIRENT_SIZE;
- inode_set_mtime_to_ts(dir,
- inode_set_ctime_to_ts(dir, inode_set_ctime_current(inode)));
inode_inc_iversion(dir);
- drop_nlink(inode);
- dput(dentry); /* Undo the count from "create" - does all the work */
+ simple_unlink(dir, dentry);
/*
* For now, VFS can't deal with case-insensitive negative dentries, so
@@ -4130,11 +4112,7 @@ static int shmem_symlink(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
dir->i_size += BOGO_DIRENT_SIZE;
inode_set_mtime_to_ts(dir, inode_set_ctime_current(dir));
inode_inc_iversion(dir);
- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_UNICODE) && IS_CASEFOLDED(dir))
- d_add(dentry, inode);
- else
- d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
- dget(dentry);
+ d_make_persistent(dentry, inode);
return 0;
out_remove_offset:
@@ -5334,7 +5312,7 @@ static struct file_system_type shmem_fs_type = {
#ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS
.parameters = shmem_fs_parameters,
#endif
- .kill_sb = kill_litter_super,
+ .kill_sb = kill_anon_super,
.fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT | FS_ALLOW_IDMAP | FS_MGTIME,
};
--
2.47.3
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2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 01/54] fuse_ctl_add_conn(): fix nlink breakage in case of early failure Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 02/54] tracefs: fix a leak in eventfs_create_events_dir() Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 03/54] new helper: simple_remove_by_name() Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 04/54] new helper: simple_done_creating() Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 05/54] introduce a flag for explicitly marking persistently pinned dentries Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 06/54] primitives for maintaining persisitency Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 07/54] convert simple_{link,unlink,rmdir,rename,fill_super}() to new primitives Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` Al Viro [this message]
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 09/54] procfs: make /self and /thread_self dentries persistent Al Viro
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2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 11/54] convert xenfs Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 12/54] convert smackfs Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 13/54] convert hugetlbfs Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 14/54] convert mqueue Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 15/54] convert bpf Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 16/54] convert dlmfs Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 17/54] convert fuse_ctl Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 18/54] convert pstore Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 19/54] convert tracefs Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 20/54] convert debugfs Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 21/54] debugfs: remove duplicate checks in callers of start_creating() Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 22/54] convert efivarfs Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 23/54] convert spufs Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 24/54] convert ibmasmfs Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 25/54] ibmasmfs: get rid of ibmasmfs_dir_ops Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 26/54] convert devpts Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 27/54] binderfs: use simple_start_creating() Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 28/54] binderfs_binder_ctl_create(): kill a bogus check Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 29/54] convert binderfs Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 30/54] autofs_{rmdir,unlink}: dentry->d_fsdata->dentry == dentry there Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 31/54] convert autofs Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 32/54] convert binfmt_misc Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 33/54] selinuxfs: don't stash the dentry of /policy_capabilities Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 34/54] selinuxfs: new helper for attaching files to tree Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 35/54] convert selinuxfs Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 36/54] functionfs: don't abuse ffs_data_closed() on fs shutdown Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 37/54] functionfs: don't bother with ffs->ref in ffs_data_{opened,closed}() Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 38/54] functionfs: need to cancel ->reset_work in ->kill_sb() Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 39/54] functionfs: fix the open/removal races Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 40/54] functionfs: switch to simple_remove_by_name() Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 41/54] convert functionfs Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 42/54] gadgetfs: switch to simple_remove_by_name() Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 43/54] convert gadgetfs Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 44/54] hypfs: don't pin dentries twice Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 45/54] hypfs: switch hypfs_create_str() to returning int Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 46/54] hypfs: swich hypfs_create_u64() " Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 47/54] convert hypfs Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 48/54] convert rpc_pipefs Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 49/54] convert nfsctl Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:15 ` [PATCH v4 50/54] convert rust_binderfs Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:16 ` [PATCH v4 51/54] get rid of kill_litter_super() Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:16 ` [PATCH v4 52/54] convert securityfs Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:16 ` [PATCH v4 53/54] kill securityfs_recursive_remove() Al Viro
2025-11-18 5:16 ` [PATCH v4 54/54] d_make_discardable(): warn if given a non-persistent dentry Al Viro
2026-01-27 0:56 ` [PATCH v4 00/54] tree-in-dcache stuff Samuel Wu
2026-01-27 7:42 ` Greg KH
2026-01-27 18:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-01-27 20:14 ` Al Viro
2026-01-28 8:53 ` Greg KH
2026-01-28 2:02 ` Samuel Wu
2026-01-28 4:59 ` Al Viro
2026-01-29 0:58 ` Samuel Wu
2026-01-29 3:23 ` Al Viro
2026-01-29 22:54 ` Al Viro
2026-01-30 1:16 ` Samuel Wu
2026-01-30 7:04 ` Al Viro
2026-01-30 22:31 ` Samuel Wu
2026-01-30 23:57 ` Al Viro
2026-01-31 0:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-01-31 1:08 ` Al Viro
2026-01-31 1:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-02-01 0:11 ` Al Viro
2026-01-31 0:59 ` Al Viro
2026-01-31 1:05 ` Samuel Wu
2026-01-31 1:18 ` Al Viro
2026-01-31 2:09 ` Samuel Wu
2026-01-31 2:43 ` Al Viro
2026-01-31 19:48 ` Samuel Wu
2026-01-31 14:58 ` Krishna Kurapati PSSNV
2026-01-31 20:02 ` Samuel Wu
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