lwn.git/fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c, branch docs-5.10-2

GFS2: Rename ops_inode.c to inode.c

2011-05-10T12:12:49+00:00

This is the final part of the ops_inode.c/inode.c reordering. We are left with a single file called inode.c which now contains all the inode operations, as expected. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Move most of the remaining inode.c into ops_inode.c

2011-05-09T15:45:14+00:00

This is in preparation to remove inode.c and rename ops_inode.c to inode.c. Also most of the functions which were left in inode.c relate to the creation and lookup of inodes. I'm intending to work on consolidating some of that code, and its easier when its all in one place. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Remove gfs2_dinode_print() function

2011-05-09T15:44:29+00:00

This function was intended for debugging purposes, but it is not very useful. If we want to know what is on disk then all we need is a block number and gfs2_edit can give us much better information about what is there. Otherwise, if we are interested in what is stored in the in-core inode, it doesn't help us out there either. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: When adding a new dir entry, inc link count if it is a subdir

2011-05-09T15:43:53+00:00

This adds an increment of the link count when we add a new directory entry, if that entry is itself a directory. This means that we no longer need separate code to perform this operation. Now that both adding and removing directory entries automatically update the parent directory's link count if required, that makes the code shorter and simpler than before. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Make gfs2_dir_del update link count when required

2011-05-09T15:42:37+00:00

When we remove an entry from a directory, we can save ourselves some trouble if we know the type of the entry in question, since if it is itself a directory, we can update the link count of the parent at the same time as removing the directory entry. In addition this patch also merges the rmdir and unlink code which was almost identical anyway. This eliminates the calls to remove the . and .. directory entries on each rmdir (not needed since the directory will be deallocated, anyway) which was the only thing preventing passing the dentry to gfs2_dir_del(). The passing of the dentry rather than just the name allows us to figure out the type of the entry which is being removed, and thus adjust the link count when required. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Don't use gfs2_change_nlink in link syscall

2011-05-09T15:35:25+00:00

There are three users of gfs2_change_nlink which add to the link count. Two of these are about to be removed in later patches, so this means that there will no callers, when that happens allowing removal of that function, also in a later patch. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Double check link count under glock

2011-05-05T11:35:40+00:00

To avoid any possible races relating to the link count, we need to recheck it under the inode's glock in all cases where it matters. Also to ensure we never get any nasty surprises, this patch also ensures that once the link count has hit zero it can never be elevated by rereading in data from disk. The only place we cannot provide a proper solution is in rename in the case where we are removing a target inode and we discover that the target inode has been already unlinked on another node. The race window is very small, and we return EAGAIN in this case to indicate what has happened. The proper solution would be to move the lookup parts of rename from the vfs into library calls which the fs could call directly, but that is potentially a very big job and this fix should cover most cases for now. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Post-VFS scale update for RCU path walk

2011-01-21T09:39:24+00:00

We can allow a few more cases to use RCU path walking than originally allowed. It should be possible to also enable RCU path walking when the glock is already cached. Thats a bit more complicated though, so left for a future patch. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse Cc: Nick Piggin

fallocate should be a file operation

2011-01-17T07:25:31+00:00

Currently all filesystems except XFS implement fallocate asynchronously, while XFS forced a commit. Both of these are suboptimal - in case of O_SYNC I/O we really want our allocation on disk, especially for the !KEEP_SIZE case where we actually grow the file with user-visible zeroes. On the other hand always commiting the transaction is a bad idea for fast-path uses of fallocate like for example in recent Samba versions. Given that block allocation is a data plane operation anyway change it from an inode operation to a file operation so that we have the file structure available that lets us check for O_SYNC. This also includes moving the code around for a few of the filesystems, and remove the already unnedded S_ISDIR checks given that we only wire up fallocate for regular files. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro

make the feature checks in ->fallocate future proof

2011-01-17T07:25:30+00:00

Instead of various home grown checks that might need updates for new flags just check for any bit outside the mask of the features supported by the filesystem. This makes the check future proof for any newly added flag. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro