From: Eric W. Biederman Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 09:18:57 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] proc: comment what proc_fill_cache does X-Git-Tag: v2.6.19-rc1~380 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1c0d04c9e44f4a248335c33d2be7c7f7b06ff359;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] proc: comment what proc_fill_cache does Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index 433a01d2e9..a317eb2c44 100644 --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -1057,6 +1057,18 @@ static struct dentry_operations pid_dentry_operations = typedef struct dentry *instantiate_t(struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct task_struct *, void *); +/* + * Fill a directory entry. + * + * If possible create the dcache entry and derive our inode number and + * file type from dcache entry. + * + * Since all of the proc inode numbers are dynamically generated, the inode + * numbers do not exist until the inode is cache. This means creating the + * the dcache entry in readdir is necessary to keep the inode numbers + * reported by readdir in sync with the inode numbers reported + * by stat. + */ static int proc_fill_cache(struct file *filp, void *dirent, filldir_t filldir, char *name, int len, instantiate_t instantiate, struct task_struct *task, void *ptr)