[PATCH 6/9] kernfs: Add KERNFS_REMOVING flags

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Sun Aug 28 2022 - 01:05:30 EST


KERNFS_ACTIVATED tracks whether a given node has ever been activated. As a
node was only deactivated on removal, this was used for

1. Drain optimization (removed by the previous patch).
2. To hide !activated nodes
3. To avoid double activations
4. Reject adding children to a node being removed
5. Skip activaing a node which is being removed.

We want to decouple deactivation from removal so that nodes can be
deactivated and hidden dynamically, which makes KERNFS_ACTIVATED useless for
all of the above purposes.

#1 is already gone. #2 and #3 can instead test whether the node is currently
active. A new flag KERNFS_REMOVING is added to explicitly mark nodes which
are being removed for #4 and #5.

While this leaves KERNFS_ACTIVATED with no users, leave it be as it will be
used in a following patch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/kernfs/dir.c | 21 +++++++--------------
include/linux/kernfs.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
index b3d2018a334d..f8cbd05e9b68 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
@@ -705,13 +705,7 @@ struct kernfs_node *kernfs_find_and_get_node_by_id(struct kernfs_root *root,
goto err_unlock;
}

- /*
- * ACTIVATED is protected with kernfs_mutex but it was clear when
- * @kn was added to idr and we just wanna see it set. No need to
- * grab kernfs_mutex.
- */
- if (unlikely(!(kn->flags & KERNFS_ACTIVATED) ||
- !atomic_inc_not_zero(&kn->count)))
+ if (unlikely(!kernfs_active(kn) || !atomic_inc_not_zero(&kn->count)))
goto err_unlock;

spin_unlock(&kernfs_idr_lock);
@@ -753,10 +747,7 @@ int kernfs_add_one(struct kernfs_node *kn)
goto out_unlock;

ret = -ENOENT;
- if (parent->flags & KERNFS_EMPTY_DIR)
- goto out_unlock;
-
- if ((parent->flags & KERNFS_ACTIVATED) && !kernfs_active(parent))
+ if (parent->flags & (KERNFS_REMOVING | KERNFS_EMPTY_DIR))
goto out_unlock;

kn->hash = kernfs_name_hash(kn->name, kn->ns);
@@ -1336,7 +1327,7 @@ void kernfs_activate(struct kernfs_node *kn)

pos = NULL;
while ((pos = kernfs_next_descendant_post(pos, kn))) {
- if (pos->flags & KERNFS_ACTIVATED)
+ if (kernfs_active(pos) || (pos->flags & KERNFS_REMOVING))
continue;

WARN_ON_ONCE(pos->parent && RB_EMPTY_NODE(&pos->rb));
@@ -1368,11 +1359,13 @@ static void __kernfs_remove(struct kernfs_node *kn)

pr_debug("kernfs %s: removing\n", kn->name);

- /* prevent any new usage under @kn by deactivating all nodes */
+ /* prevent new usage by marking all nodes removing and deactivating */
pos = NULL;
- while ((pos = kernfs_next_descendant_post(pos, kn)))
+ while ((pos = kernfs_next_descendant_post(pos, kn))) {
+ pos->flags |= KERNFS_REMOVING;
if (kernfs_active(pos))
atomic_add(KN_DEACTIVATED_BIAS, &pos->active);
+ }

/* deactivate and unlink the subtree node-by-node */
do {
diff --git a/include/linux/kernfs.h b/include/linux/kernfs.h
index 367044d7708c..b77d257c1f7e 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernfs.h
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ enum kernfs_node_flag {
KERNFS_SUICIDED = 0x0800,
KERNFS_EMPTY_DIR = 0x1000,
KERNFS_HAS_RELEASE = 0x2000,
+ KERNFS_REMOVING = 0x4000,
};

/* @flags for kernfs_create_root() */
--
2.37.2