[PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentry

Give the statfs superblock operation a dentry pointer rather than a superblock
pointer.

This complements the get_sb() patch.  That reduced the significance of
sb->s_root, allowing NFS to place a fake root there.  However, NFS does
require a dentry to use as a target for the statfs operation.  This permits
the root in the vfsmount to be used instead.

linux/mount.h has been added where necessary to make allyesconfig build
successfully.

Interest has also been expressed for use with the FUSE and XFS filesystems.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This commit is contained in:
David Howells
2006-06-23 02:02:58 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 454e2398be
commit 726c334223
60 changed files with 175 additions and 144 deletions

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@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ static int dummy_sb_kern_mount (struct super_block *sb, void *data)
return 0;
}
static int dummy_sb_statfs (struct super_block *sb)
static int dummy_sb_statfs (struct dentry *dentry)
{
return 0;
}