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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 09:35:49 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
 Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
 Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
 Al  Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
 Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>,
 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [for-linus][PATCH 1/3] eventfs: Have the inodes all for files and directories all be the
 same
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From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>

The dentries and inodes are created in the readdir for the sole purpose of
getting a consistent inode number. Linus stated that is unnecessary, and
that all inodes can have the same inode number. For a virtual file system
they are pretty meaningless.

Instead use a single unique inode number for all files and one for all
directories.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240116133753.2808d45e@gandalf.local.home/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240116211353.412180363@goodmis.org

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Al  Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
index fdff53d5a1f8..5edf0b96758b 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@
  */
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(eventfs_mutex);
 
+/* Choose something "unique" ;-) */
+#define EVENTFS_FILE_INODE_INO		0x12c4e37
+#define EVENTFS_DIR_INODE_INO		0x134b2f5
+
 /*
  * The eventfs_inode (ei) itself is protected by SRCU. It is released from
  * its parent's list and will have is_freed set (under eventfs_mutex).
@@ -352,6 +356,9 @@ static struct dentry *create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode,
 	inode->i_fop = fop;
 	inode->i_private = data;
 
+	/* All files will have the same inode number */
+	inode->i_ino = EVENTFS_FILE_INODE_INO;
+
 	ti = get_tracefs(inode);
 	ti->flags |= TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE;
 	d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
@@ -388,6 +395,9 @@ static struct dentry *create_dir(struct eventfs_inode *ei, struct dentry *parent
 	inode->i_op = &eventfs_root_dir_inode_operations;
 	inode->i_fop = &eventfs_file_operations;
 
+	/* All directories will have the same inode number */
+	inode->i_ino = EVENTFS_DIR_INODE_INO;
+
 	ti = get_tracefs(inode);
 	ti->flags |= TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE;
 
-- 
2.43.0