fs: remove inode_lock from iput_final and prune_icache

Now that inode state changes are protected by the inode->i_lock and
the inode LRU manipulations by the inode_lru_lock, we can remove the
inode_lock from prune_icache and the initial part of iput_final().

instead of using the inode_lock to protect the inode during
iput_final, use the inode->i_lock instead. This protects the inode
against new references being taken while we change the inode state
to I_FREEING, as well as preventing prune_icache from grabbing the
inode while we are manipulating it. Hence we no longer need the
inode_lock in iput_final prior to setting I_FREEING on the inode.

For prune_icache, we no longer need the inode_lock to protect the
LRU list, and the inodes themselves are protected against freeing
races by the inode->i_lock. Hence we can lift the inode_lock from
prune_icache as well.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
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Dave Chinner 2011-03-22 22:23:39 +11:00 • committed by Al Viro
commit f283c86afe
5 changed files with 17 additions and 22 deletions

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@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ alloc_inode:
destroy_inode:
dirty_inode: (must not sleep)
write_inode:
drop_inode: !!!inode_lock!!!
drop_inode: !!!inode->i_lock!!!
evict_inode:
put_super: write
write_super: read

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@ -298,11 +298,14 @@ be used instead. It gets called whenever the inode is evicted, whether it has
remaining links or not. Caller does *not* evict the pagecache or inode-associated
metadata buffers; getting rid of those is responsibility of method, as it had
been for ->delete_inode().
->drop_inode() returns int now; it's called on final iput() with inode_lock
held and it returns true if filesystems wants the inode to be dropped. As before,
generic_drop_inode() is still the default and it's been updated appropriately.
generic_delete_inode() is also alive and it consists simply of return 1. Note that
all actual eviction work is done by caller after ->drop_inode() returns.
->drop_inode() returns int now; it's called on final iput() with
inode->i_lock held and it returns true if filesystems wants the inode to be
dropped. As before, generic_drop_inode() is still the default and it's been
updated appropriately. generic_delete_inode() is also alive and it consists
simply of return 1. Note that all actual eviction work is done by caller after
->drop_inode() returns.
clear_inode() is gone; use end_writeback() instead. As before, it must
be called exactly once on each call of ->evict_inode() (as it used to be for
each call of ->delete_inode()). Unlike before, if you are using inode-associated
@ -395,6 +398,9 @@ Currently you can only have FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE with FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE set,
so the i_size should not change when hole punching, even when puching the end of
a file off.
--
[mandatory]
--
[mandatory]
->get_sb() is gone. Switch to use of ->mount(). Typically it's just

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@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ or bottom half).
should be synchronous or not, not all filesystems check this flag.
drop_inode: called when the last access to the inode is dropped,
with the inode_lock spinlock held.
with the inode->i_lock spinlock held.
This method should be either NULL (normal UNIX filesystem
semantics) or "generic_delete_inode" (for filesystems that do not