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authorSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>2007-06-08 10:05:33 +0100
committerSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>2007-07-09 08:23:26 +0100
commitc8cdf479377462315d6b4f56379f8ac989b0ef29 (patch)
tree3eee98ca4af8bba92a6df096f6fd2de615a71fa5 /fs/gfs2/inode.c
parentb35997d4482ed24b43a5951c5b021d224b24293c (diff)
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[GFS2] Recovery for lost unlinked inodes
Under certain circumstances its possible (though rather unlikely) that inodes which were unlinked by one node while still open on another might get "lost" in the sense that they don't get deallocated if the node which held the inode open crashed before it was unlinked. This patch adds the recovery code which allows automatic deallocation of the inode if its found during block allocation (the sensible time to look for such inodes since we are scanning the rgrp's bitmaps anyway at this time, so it adds no overhead to do this). Since the inode will have had its i_nlink set to zero, all we need to trigger recovery is a lookup and an iput(), and the normal deallocation code takes care of the rest. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/gfs2/inode.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/gfs2/inode.c50
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/inode.c b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
index 87505f7eb745..cacdb0dfe577 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
@@ -98,22 +98,8 @@ struct inode *gfs2_inode_lookup(struct super_block *sb, u64 no_addr, unsigned in
if (inode->i_state & I_NEW) {
struct gfs2_sbd *sdp = GFS2_SB(inode);
- umode_t mode = DT2IF(type);
+ umode_t mode;
inode->i_private = ip;
- inode->i_mode = mode;
-
- if (S_ISREG(mode)) {
- inode->i_op = &gfs2_file_iops;
- inode->i_fop = &gfs2_file_fops;
- inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &gfs2_file_aops;
- } else if (S_ISDIR(mode)) {
- inode->i_op = &gfs2_dir_iops;
- inode->i_fop = &gfs2_dir_fops;
- } else if (S_ISLNK(mode)) {
- inode->i_op = &gfs2_symlink_iops;
- } else {
- inode->i_op = &gfs2_dev_iops;
- }
error = gfs2_glock_get(sdp, no_addr, &gfs2_inode_glops, CREATE, &ip->i_gl);
if (unlikely(error))
@@ -130,10 +116,44 @@ struct inode *gfs2_inode_lookup(struct super_block *sb, u64 no_addr, unsigned in
goto fail_iopen;
gfs2_glock_put(io_gl);
+
+ /*
+ * We must read the inode in order to work out its type in
+ * this case. Note that this doesn't happen often as we normally
+ * know the type beforehand. This code path only occurs during
+ * unlinked inode recovery (where it is safe to do this glock,
+ * which is not true in the general case).
+ */
+ inode->i_mode = mode = DT2IF(type);
+ if (type == DT_UNKNOWN) {
+ struct gfs2_holder gh;
+ error = gfs2_glock_nq_init(ip->i_gl, LM_ST_EXCLUSIVE, 0, &gh);
+ if (unlikely(error))
+ goto fail_glock;
+ /* Inode is now uptodate */
+ mode = inode->i_mode;
+ gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(&gh);
+ }
+
+ if (S_ISREG(mode)) {
+ inode->i_op = &gfs2_file_iops;
+ inode->i_fop = &gfs2_file_fops;
+ inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &gfs2_file_aops;
+ } else if (S_ISDIR(mode)) {
+ inode->i_op = &gfs2_dir_iops;
+ inode->i_fop = &gfs2_dir_fops;
+ } else if (S_ISLNK(mode)) {
+ inode->i_op = &gfs2_symlink_iops;
+ } else {
+ inode->i_op = &gfs2_dev_iops;
+ }
+
unlock_new_inode(inode);
}
return inode;
+fail_glock:
+ gfs2_glock_dq(&ip->i_iopen_gh);
fail_iopen:
gfs2_glock_put(io_gl);
fail_put: