Re: [patch 2/2] reiser4: new export ops

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Nov 28 2007 - 04:43:29 EST


This code looks a little confusing to me..

> */
> static char *decode_inode(struct super_block *s, char *addr,
> reiser4_object_on_wire * obj)
> @@ -41,7 +42,8 @@
> fplug = file_plugin_by_disk_id(reiser4_get_tree(s), (d16 *) addr);
> if (fplug != NULL) {
> addr += sizeof(d16);
> - obj->plugin = fplug;
> + if (obj)
> + obj->plugin = fplug;

You are adding quite a few of those if (obj) clauses. I can't see a
reason for that - care to explain? The new aops should not disallow for
any functionality that has been there before.

> static struct dentry *reiser4_decode_fh(struct super_block *super, __u32 *fh,
> + int len, int fhtype, int parent)
> {
> reiser4_context *ctx;
> reiser4_object_on_wire object;
> char *addr;
>
> ctx = reiser4_init_context(super);
> if (IS_ERR(ctx))
> @@ -80,25 +77,19 @@
> assert("vs-1482",
> fhtype == FH_WITH_PARENT || fhtype == FH_WITHOUT_PARENT);
>
> addr = (char *)fh;
>
> object_on_wire_init(&object);
> +
> + if (parent)
> + /* skip first onwire object */
> + addr = decode_inode(super, addr, NULL);
> if (!IS_ERR(addr)) {
> + addr = decode_inode(super, addr, &object);
> if (!IS_ERR(addr)) {
> struct dentry *d;
>
> + d = reiser4_get_dentry(super, &object);

I'd suggest to directly poke into the place where the parent handle
is stored. XFS used a similar construct to the decode_inode helper,
but with the new aops it's faster and easier to read if you just have
a helper on how many bytes to skip. Did you take a look at how the
various other filesystem handle the export ops?

> --- linux-2.6.23-mm1/fs/reiser4/dscale.c.orig
> +++ linux-2.6.23-mm1/fs/reiser4/dscale.c
> @@ -126,6 +126,24 @@

How are the changes to all these other files related to the export
operations changes?

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