[Devel] Re: [PATCH 3/7] Containers (V8): Add generic multi-subsystem API to containers

[Srivatsa Vaddagiri]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:32:24PM -0700, menage at google.com wrote:
> -static int container_create_dir(struct container *cont, const char *name, int mode)
> +static int container_create_dir(struct container *cont, struct dentry *dentry,
> +				int mode)
>  {
> -	struct dentry *dentry = NULL;
>  	struct dentry *parent;
>  	int error = 0;
> 
>  	parent = cont->parent->dentry;
> -	dentry = container_get_dentry(parent, name);

If you removed this line, then:

>  	if (IS_ERR(dentry))
>  		return PTR_ERR(dentry);
> -	error = container_create_file(dentry, S_IFDIR | mode);
> +	error = container_create_file(dentry, S_IFDIR | mode, cont->root->sb);
>  	if (!error) {
>  		dentry->d_fsdata = cont;
> -		parent->d_inode->i_nlink++;
> +		inc_nlink(parent->d_inode);
>  		cont->dentry = dentry;
>  	}
>  	dput(dentry);

We should remove this dput as well, otherwise we will be short of
required reference count on dentry by 1?

Basically, when user does:

        # cd /dev/container
        # mkdir a

and mkdir returns, what should be the (min) ref count of a's dentry? From my
understanding it should be total number of files under a + 1. The dput
above will cause this reqd count to be short by 1 ..

-- 
Regards,
vatsa