Re: [RFC PATCH v5 03/10] ovl: implement overlayfs' ->evict_inode operation

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2021 at 08:08, Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 在 2021/10/6 23:33, Miklos Szeredi 写道:
> > On Thu, 23 Sept 2021 at 15:08, Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Implement overlayfs' ->evict_inode operation,
> >> so that we can clear dirty flags of overlayfs inode.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>   fs/overlayfs/super.c | 7 +++++++
> >>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
> >> index 51886ba6130a..2ab77adf7256 100644
> >> --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
> >> +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
> >> @@ -406,11 +406,18 @@ static int ovl_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data)
> >>          return ret;
> >>   }
> >>
> >> +static void ovl_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
> >> +{
> >> +       inode->i_state &= ~I_DIRTY_ALL;
> >> +       clear_inode(inode);
> > clear_inode() should already clear the dirty flags; the default
> > eviction should work fine without having to define an ->evict_inode.
> > What am I missing?
>
> Yeah, you are right, we don't need overlayfs' own ->evict_inode anymore
>
> because we wait all writeback upper inodes in overlayfs' ->sync_fs.

Okay, I dropped this patch then.

Thanks,
Miklos