Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: fix comment of f2fs_evict_inode

From: Gao Xiang
Date: Sat Sep 28 2019 - 22:33:08 EST


On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 08:53:05AM +0800, Chao Yu wrote:
> Hi Jaegeuk,
>
> On 2019/9/28 2:31, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> > Hi Chao,
> >
> > On 09/25, Chao Yu wrote:
> >> evict() should be called once i_count is zero, rather than i_nlinke
> >> is zero.
> >>
> >> Reported-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> fs/f2fs/inode.c | 2 +-
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/inode.c b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
> >> index db4fec30c30d..8262f4a483d3 100644
> >> --- a/fs/f2fs/inode.c
> >> +++ b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
> >> @@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ int f2fs_write_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
> >> }
> >>
> >> /*
> >> - * Called at the last iput() if i_nlink is zero
> >
> > I don't think this comment is wrong. You may be able to add on top of this.
>
> It actually misleads the developer or user.
>
> How do you think of:
>
> "Called at the last iput() if i_count is zero, and will release all meta/data
> blocks allocated in the inode if i_nlink is zero"

(sigh... side note: I just took some time to check the original meaning
out of curiosity. AFAIK, the above word was added in Linux-2.1.45 [1]
due to ext2_delete_inode behavior, which is called when i_nlink == 0,
and .delete_inode was gone in 2010 (commit 72edc4d0873b merge ext2
delete_inode and clear_inode, switch to ->evict_inode()), it may be
helpful to understand the story so I write here for later folks reference.
And it's also good to just kill it. )

+
+/*
+ * Called at the last iput() if i_nlink is zero.
+ */
+void ext2_delete_inode (struct inode * inode)
+{
+ if (inode->i_ino == EXT2_ACL_IDX_INO ||
inode->i_ino == EXT2_ACL_DATA_INO)
return;
inode->u.ext2_i.i_dtime = CURRENT_TIME;
- inode->i_dirt = 1;
+ mark_inode_dirty(inode);
ext2_update_inode(inode, IS_SYNC(inode));
inode->i_size = 0;
if (inode->i_blocks)
@@ -248,7 +258,7 @@
if (IS_SYNC(inode) || inode->u.ext2_i.i_osync)
ext2_sync_inode (inode);
else
- inode->i_dirt = 1;
+ mark_inode_dirty(inode);
return result;
}

+void iput(struct inode *inode)
{
- struct inode * inode = get_empty_inode();
+ if (inode) {
+ struct super_operations *op = NULL;

- PIPE_BASE(*inode) = (char*)__get_free_page(GFP_USER);
- if (!(PIPE_BASE(*inode))) {
- iput(inode);
- return NULL;
+ if (inode->i_sb && inode->i_sb->s_op)
+ op = inode->i_sb->s_op;
+ if (op && op->put_inode)
+ op->put_inode(inode);
+
+ spin_lock(&inode_lock);
+ if (!--inode->i_count) {
+ if (!inode->i_nlink) {
+ list_del(&inode->i_hash);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_hash);
+ if (op && op->delete_inode) {
+ void (*delete)(struct inode *) = op->delete_inode;
+ spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
+ delete(inode);
+ spin_lock(&inode_lock);
+ }
+ }
+ if (list_empty(&inode->i_hash)) {
+ list_del(&inode->i_list);
+ list_add(&inode->i_list, &inode_unused);
+ }
+ }
+ spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
}

[1] https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.1/patch-2.1.45.xz

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

>
> Thanks,
>
> >
> >> + * Called at the last iput() if i_count is zero
> >> */
> >> void f2fs_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
> >> {
> >> --
> >> 2.18.0.rc1
> > .
> >
>
>
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