Christoph Rohland wrote:
> Unfortunately the fs does not get the mount point from anywhere. The
> only function called by the VFS ist read_super, which does not get the
> information. If you want to autodetect, you have to play tricks with
> dcache and the path to your root inode.
If you move the call to shm_getname into lock_kernel/unlock_kernel,
you can be sure that by the time anything can access /var/shm,
shm_sb->s_root->d_covers will be valid. Maybe add a comment to
sys_mount to make sure that anybody trying to remove the big kernel
lock knows that they have to give shm another lock instead.
Probably a bit inefficient for sys_shmat, but then it's probably not
the type of system call that gets invoked a thousand times per second
anyway.
I think there are worse kludges in the kernel ;-)
- Werner
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