Re: [PATCH 1/2] dax: pass bdev argument to dax_clear_blocks()

From: Ross Zwisler
Date: Sun Feb 07 2016 - 20:44:25 EST


On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 09:03:29AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 12:19:12AM -0700, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> > dax_clear_blocks() needs a valid struct block_device and previously it was
> > using inode->i_sb->s_bdev in all cases. This is correct for normal inodes
> > on mounted ext2, ext4 and XFS filesystems, but is incorrect for DAX raw
> > block devices and for XFS real-time devices.
> >
> > Instead, have the caller pass in a struct block_device pointer which it
> > knows to be correct.
> ....
> > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
> > index 07ef29b..f722ba2 100644
> > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
> > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
> > @@ -73,9 +73,11 @@ xfs_zero_extent(
> > xfs_daddr_t sector = xfs_fsb_to_db(ip, start_fsb);
> > sector_t block = XFS_BB_TO_FSBT(mp, sector);
> > ssize_t size = XFS_FSB_TO_B(mp, count_fsb);
> > + struct inode *inode = VFS_I(ip);
> >
> > if (IS_DAX(VFS_I(ip)))
> > - return dax_clear_blocks(VFS_I(ip), block, size);
> > + return dax_clear_blocks(inode, xfs_find_bdev_for_inode(inode),
> > + block, size);
>
> Get rid of the local inode variable and use VFS_I(ip) like the code
> originally did. Do not change code that is unrelated to the
> modifcation being made, especially when it results in making
> the code an inconsistent mess of mixed pointer constructs....

The local 'inode' variable was added to avoid multiple calls for VFS_I() for
the same 'ip'. That said, I'm happy to make the change.