On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 00:27, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:26:20AM -0700, Ram wrote:
> > Patch that help move a mount tree to a different mountpoint. The tree can
> > contain any combination of shared/slave/private/unclonable mounts.
>
> OK, that answers the question about MS_MOVE... Please, add brute-force
> "we don't allow it other than in trivial case" *before* the previous
> patch, replacing it with the right thing here.
>
> BTW, I suspect that a look at operations on ->mnt_list and friends you
> have in the entire thing would bring several inlined helpers covering
> most of the instances; there's definitely too much raw list_add(), etc.
> instances in the current code.
ok.
>
> > +/*
> > + * return 1 if the mount tree contains a unclonable mount
> > + */
> > +static inline int tree_contains_unclone(struct vfsmount *mnt)
> > +{
> > + struct vfsmount *p;
> > + for (p = mnt; p; p = next_mnt(p, mnt)) {
> > + if (IS_MNT_UNCLONABLE(p))
> > + return 1;
> > + }
> > + return 0;
> > +}
>
> FWIW, such helpers should probably go in the same place where you
> introduce unclonable - they won't complicate earlier patch and will
> be in place there and they won't clutter this one anymore.
ok and thanks for all the comments!
Very much appreciate it!!
Will have all the comments incorporated and ready for --mm tree by this
week-end,
RP
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