Re: [PATCH 2/4] fs: factor inode disposal

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Oct 27 2010 - 03:55:34 EST


> /*
> + * Free the inode passed in, removing it from the lists it is still connected
> + * to but avoiding unnecessary lock round-trips for the lists it is no longer
> + * on.
> + *
> + * An inode must already be marked I_FREEING so that we avoid the inode being
> + * moved back onto lists if we race with other code that manipulates the lists
> + * (e.g. writeback_single_inode_inode). The caller is responsisble for setting this.

Too long line.

> + */
> +static void dispose_one_inode(struct inode *inode)
> +{
> + BUG_ON(!(inode->i_state & I_FREEING));
> +
> + spin_lock(&inode_lock);
> + list_del_init(&inode->i_wb_list);
> + __remove_inode_hash(inode);
> + __inode_sb_list_del(inode);
> + spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
> +
> + evict(inode);
> +
> + wake_up_inode(inode);
> + BUG_ON(inode->i_state != (I_FREEING | I_CLEAR));
> + destroy_inode(inode);
> +}

As this is the only caller of evict left I think the code should just
be added to evict instead of a new function. Also the hash removal
should happen after evict, so that __wait_on_freeing_inode still works.

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