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Commit 1681bc30 authored by Randy Dunlap's avatar Randy Dunlap Committed by Alexey Dobriyan
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proc: move fs/proc/inode-alloc.txt comment into a source file



so that people will realize that it exists and can update it as needed.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
parent e1c50248
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@@ -307,6 +307,21 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(proc_inum_lock); /* protects the above */
/*
 * Return an inode number between PROC_DYNAMIC_FIRST and
 * 0xffffffff, or zero on failure.
 *
 * Current inode allocations in the proc-fs (hex-numbers):
 *
 * 00000000		reserved
 * 00000001-00000fff	static entries	(goners)
 *      001		root-ino
 *
 * 00001000-00001fff	unused
 * 0001xxxx-7fffxxxx	pid-dir entries for pid 1-7fff
 * 80000000-efffffff	unused
 * f0000000-ffffffff	dynamic entries
 *
 * Goal:
 *	Once we split the thing into several virtual filesystems,
 *	we will get rid of magical ranges (and this comment, BTW).
 */
static unsigned int get_inode_number(void)
{

fs/proc/inode-alloc.txt

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Current inode allocations in the proc-fs (hex-numbers):

  00000000		reserved
  00000001-00000fff	static entries	(goners)
       001		root-ino

  00001000-00001fff	unused
  0001xxxx-7fffxxxx	pid-dir entries for pid 1-7fff
  80000000-efffffff	unused
  f0000000-ffffffff	dynamic entries

Goal:
	a) once we'll split the thing into several virtual filesystems we
	will get rid of magical ranges (and this file, BTW).