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Fuse doesn't want the callers to access the inode attributes without
issuing stat, and it is not assured that they are valid after lookup or
iget().
The inode attribute is critical for aufs, and aufs decided to call stat
every time for fuse.
Of course, it makes aufs slow. But when the branch fs is not fuse, stat
is not called.

Currently, only FUSE implements ->poll(), and aufs supports it.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

Generally aufs hides the name of whiteouts. But in some cases, to show
them is very useful for users. For instance, creating a new middle layer
(branch) by merging existing layers.

See also the document in this commit.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

When aufs meets a new dir inode on a branch in lookup, it tests whether
the inode is in the list which the branch has. If the inode is found, it
means the dir has ever been logically renamed and there is some info
about the name under that dir. Then aufs tries loading the info, and
continues looking up using the before-renamed name on the lower
branches.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

Sometimes the aufs policy to respect the branch fs's permission bits
makes users confused. IE. the direcotry permission bits on the top branch
allows users to read, but the lower branch prohibts. This option may be
useful for such case.
See also the document in this commit.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

Here are entry adding inode operations, i_op->create(), symlink(),
mkdir(), mknod(), and tmpfile().
Obviously they return EOPNOTSUPP when the target branch fs doesn't
support the operation.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

Optimize out ->d_revalidate() if possible.
If the refreshing failed, then ->d_revalidate() remains. In this case,
aufs has two types of dentries. One has ->d_revalidate, the other
doesn't. I am afraid it will confuse me someday.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

Implement d_op->d_revalidate().
This is another core part of UDBA (cf. lookup.txt in another commit).
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

As a part of branch-management, aufs maintains all cached inodes,
dentries, and opened files in remounting.
This commits handles the cached dentries by calling the VFS internal
function d_walk().
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

The main part is in previous commit.
This commit handles the generation of aufs objects, to make sure the
inode in the file handle is still valid.
In order not to confuse NFSD, the various operation returns ESTALE for
NFSD where it used to return EBUSY.

See also the document in this commit.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

Aufs allows users' direct branch access (UDBA), ie. by-passing aufs.
Of course it will make aufs inode/dentry-caches obsolete. In order to
detect such change by the several tests, "udba=" option is introduced.

For details, see lookup.txt in later commit.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

Basically copy-up is done by these steps using au_pin (in another
commit).
- lock the target parent mutex
- lookup a negative dentry with a whiteout-ed temporary unique name
- create it
- unlock the target parent mutex
- copy filedata
- copy metadata (inode attributes)
- lock the target parent mutex
- rename the temporary name to the target name
- unlock the target parent mutex

This commit contains step2 mainly.
I hope someday aufs uses O_TMPFILE for this.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

To create/delete/rename files including copy-up, aufs acquires several
locks on the branch fs internally. These lock/unlock operations are
consolidated into struct au_pin in this commit.
au_pin handles
- LOCKDEP class
- re-validate/verify
- suspend/resume HNOTIFY

See also lookup.txt in later commit.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>