Re: [PATCH] make last_inode counter in new_inode 32-bit on kernelsthat offer x86 compatability

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Tue Nov 07 2006 - 11:07:38 EST


On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 10:56 -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
>
> Here's a more involved (again, untested) patch. I turned new_inode into
> a wrapper for a new function (new_inode_autonum). If the autonum arg is
> set, then we should get back a unique i_ino.
>
> This also converts the iunique function to use the per sb s_lastino
> counter. I think that's the right thing to do here, but I'm new to the
> hlist stuff and so feedback would be appreciated there.
>
> Current behavior for new_inode shouldn't be changed (aside from the
> per-sb s_lastino counter). The idea here would be to move filesystems
> that don't later overwrite the i_ino field, to use new_inode_autonum
> rather than new_inode and set autonum to true.
>
> Not sure how bad performance with new inode creation will be when that
> is set to true, but this is the best way I could see to do this without
> adding something like an radix tree to track used inodes.

Doh! Here is a revised patch that fixes a couple of silly errors that
would make this not compile. Also export new_inode_autonum.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 26cdb11..d96d23e 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -517,14 +517,14 @@ repeat:
}

/**
- * new_inode - obtain an inode
+ * new_inode_autonum - obtain an inode
* @sb: superblock
+ * @autonum: if true, make sure that i_ino is unique
*
* Allocates a new inode for given superblock.
*/
-struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *sb)
+struct inode *new_inode_autonum(struct super_block *sb, int autonum)
{
- static unsigned long last_ino;
struct inode * inode;

spin_lock_prefetch(&inode_lock);
@@ -535,13 +535,29 @@ struct inode *new_inode(struct super_blo
inodes_stat.nr_inodes++;
list_add(&inode->i_list, &inode_in_use);
list_add(&inode->i_sb_list, &sb->s_inodes);
- inode->i_ino = ++last_ino;
+ if (autonum)
+ inode->i_ino = iunique(sb, 0);
+ else
+ inode->i_ino = ++sb->s_lastino;
inode->i_state = 0;
spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
}
return inode;
}

+EXPORT_SYMBOL(new_inode_autonum);
+
+/**
+ * new_inode - obtain an inode
+ * @sb: superblock
+ *
+ * Allocates a new inode for given superblock.
+ */
+struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+ return new_inode_autonum(sb, 0);
+}
+
EXPORT_SYMBOL(new_inode);

void unlock_new_inode(struct inode *inode)
@@ -683,22 +699,21 @@ static unsigned long hash(struct super_b
*/
ino_t iunique(struct super_block *sb, ino_t max_reserved)
{
- static ino_t counter;
struct inode *inode;
struct hlist_head * head;
ino_t res;
spin_lock(&inode_lock);
retry:
- if (counter > max_reserved) {
- head = inode_hashtable + hash(sb,counter);
- res = counter++;
+ if (sb->s_lastino >= max_reserved) {
+ head = inode_hashtable + hash(sb,++sb->s_lastino);
+ res = sb->s_lastino;
inode = find_inode_fast(sb, head, res);
if (!inode) {
spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
return res;
}
} else {
- counter = max_reserved + 1;
+ sb->s_lastino = max_reserved;
}
goto retry;

diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 2fe6e3f..1010e64 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -961,6 +961,14 @@ #endif
/* Granularity of c/m/atime in ns.
Cannot be worse than a second */
u32 s_time_gran;
+
+ /* per-sb inode counter for new_inode. Make it a 32-bit counter when
+ we have the possibility of dealing with 32-bit apps */
+#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
+ unsigned int s_lastino;
+#else
+ unsigned long s_lastino;
+#endif
};

extern struct timespec current_fs_time(struct super_block *sb);


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