proc: move fs/proc/inode-alloc.txt comment into a source file
so that people will realize that it exists and can update it as needed. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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@@ -307,6 +307,21 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(proc_inum_lock); /* protects the above */
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/*
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* Return an inode number between PROC_DYNAMIC_FIRST and
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* 0xffffffff, or zero on failure.
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*
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* Current inode allocations in the proc-fs (hex-numbers):
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*
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* 00000000 reserved
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* 00000001-00000fff static entries (goners)
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* 001 root-ino
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*
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* 00001000-00001fff unused
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* 0001xxxx-7fffxxxx pid-dir entries for pid 1-7fff
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* 80000000-efffffff unused
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* f0000000-ffffffff dynamic entries
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*
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* Goal:
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* Once we split the thing into several virtual filesystems,
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* we will get rid of magical ranges (and this comment, BTW).
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*/
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static unsigned int get_inode_number(void)
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{
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