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There's no need to record "." dirents in the directory data (while they could be used for sanity checks, they aren't very useful.) Omitting "." dirents also improves directory data deduplication. Use a per-inode (instead of per-sb) flag to indicate if the "." dirent is omitted or not, ensuring compatibility with incremental builds. It also reuses EROFS_I_NLINK_1_BIT, as it has very limited use cases for directories with `nlink = 1`. Emit the "." entry as the last virtual dirent in the directory because it is _much_ less frequently used than the ".." dirent. It also keeps `f_pos` meaningful, as it strictly follows the directory data when it's less than i_size. Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310095459.2620647-6-hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.