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This is the central patch of a cleanup series. In most cases there is no good
reason why someone would want to use a dentry for itself. This series reflects
that fact and embeds a struct path into nameidata.
Together with the other patches of this series
- it enforced the correct order of getting/releasing the reference count on
<dentry,vfsmount> pairs
- it prepares the VFS for stacking support since it is essential to have a
struct path in every place where the stack can be traversed
- it reduces the overall code size:
without patch series:
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5321639 858418 715768 6895825 6938d1 vmlinux
with patch series:
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5320026 858418 715768
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| keys | ||
| selinux | ||
| smack | ||
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| capability.c | ||
| commoncap.c | ||
| dummy.c | ||
| inode.c | ||
| root_plug.c | ||
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