ovl: decide if revalidate needed on a per-dentry basis

Allow completely skipping ->revalidate() on a per-dentry basis, in case the
underlying layers used for a dentry do not themselves have ->revalidate().

E.g. negative overlay dentry has no underlying layers, hence revalidate is
unnecessary.  Or if lower layer is remote but overlay dentry is pure-upper,
then can skip revalidate.

The following places need to update whether the dentry needs revalidate or
not:

 - fill-super (root dentry)
 - lookup
 - create
 - fh_to_dentry

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
index 442fbffe9d7e..70d17040ab4d 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
@@ -230,6 +230,8 @@ bool ovl_index_all(struct super_block *sb);
 bool ovl_verify_lower(struct super_block *sb);
 struct ovl_entry *ovl_alloc_entry(unsigned int numlower);
 bool ovl_dentry_remote(struct dentry *dentry);
+void ovl_dentry_update_reval(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *upperdentry,
+			     unsigned int mask);
 bool ovl_dentry_weird(struct dentry *dentry);
 enum ovl_path_type ovl_path_type(struct dentry *dentry);
 void ovl_path_upper(struct dentry *dentry, struct path *path);