Re: [PATCH 04/17] fs: icache lock i_state

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Oct 01 2010 - 01:54:38 EST


> + spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
> + if (inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW)
> + || inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0) {


This is some pretty strange formatting.

if ((inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW)) ||
inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0) {

would be more standard.

> list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) {
> struct address_space *mapping;
>
> - if (inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW))
> - continue;
> mapping = inode->i_mapping;
> if (mapping->nrpages == 0)
> continue;
> + spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
> + if (inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW)) {
> + spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
> + continue;
> + }

Can we access the mapping safely when the inode isn't actually fully
setup? Even if we can I'd rather not introduce this change hidden
inside an unrelated patch.

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