Previously, an overlay would panic if either the upper or lower fs required
revalidation for a given Dirent. Now, we allow revalidation from the upper
file, but not the lower.
If a cached overlay inode does need revalidation (because the upper needs
revalidation), then the entire overlay Inode will be discarded and a new
overlay Inode will be built with a fresh copy of the upper file.
As a side effect of this change, Revalidate must take an Inode instead of a
Dirent, since an overlay needs to revalidate individual Inodes.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 208293638
Change-Id: Ic8f8d1ffdc09114721745661a09522b54420c5f1
The current revalidation logic is very simple and does not do much
introspection of the dirent being revalidated (other than looking at the type
of file).
Fancier revalidation logic is coming soon, and we need to be able to look at
the cached and uncached attributes of a given dirent, and we need a context to
perform some of these operations.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 205307351
Change-Id: If17ea1c631d8f9489c0e05a263e23d7a8a3bf159
Nicolas Lacasse
Googler