[patch 35/52] fs: icache factor hash lock into functions

From: npiggin
Date: Wed Jun 23 2010 - 23:22:30 EST


Make inode_hash_lock private by adding a function __remove_inode_hash
that can be used by filesystems defining their own drop_inode functions.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/inode.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
include/linux/fs.h | 1 +
include/linux/writeback.h | 1 -
3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/fs/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/inode.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/inode.c
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static struct hlist_head *inode_hashtabl
*/
DEFINE_SPINLOCK(sb_inode_list_lock);
DEFINE_SPINLOCK(wb_inode_list_lock);
-DEFINE_SPINLOCK(inode_hash_lock);
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(inode_hash_lock);

/*
* iprune_sem provides exclusion between the kswapd or try_to_free_pages
@@ -377,9 +377,7 @@ static void dispose_list(struct list_hea

spin_lock(&sb_inode_list_lock);
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
- spin_lock(&inode_hash_lock);
- hlist_del_init(&inode->i_hash);
- spin_unlock(&inode_hash_lock);
+ __remove_inode_hash(inode);
list_del_init(&inode->i_sb_list);
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
spin_unlock(&sb_inode_list_lock);
@@ -1280,6 +1278,20 @@ void __insert_inode_hash(struct inode *i
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__insert_inode_hash);

/**
+ * __remove_inode_hash - remove an inode from the hash
+ * @inode: inode to unhash
+ *
+ * Remove an inode from the superblock. inode->i_lock must be
+ * held.
+ */
+void __remove_inode_hash(struct inode *inode)
+{
+ spin_lock(&inode_hash_lock);
+ hlist_del_init(&inode->i_hash);
+ spin_unlock(&inode_hash_lock);
+}
+
+/**
* remove_inode_hash - remove an inode from the hash
* @inode: inode to unhash
*
@@ -1288,9 +1300,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__insert_inode_hash);
void remove_inode_hash(struct inode *inode)
{
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
- spin_lock(&inode_hash_lock);
- hlist_del_init(&inode->i_hash);
- spin_unlock(&inode_hash_lock);
+ __remove_inode_hash(inode);
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(remove_inode_hash);
@@ -1332,11 +1342,15 @@ void generic_delete_inode(struct inode *
truncate_inode_pages(&inode->i_data, 0);
clear_inode(inode);
}
- spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
- spin_lock(&inode_hash_lock);
- hlist_del_init(&inode->i_hash);
- spin_unlock(&inode_hash_lock);
- spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
+ /*
+ * i_lock not required to delete from hash. If there was a
+ * concurrency window, then it would be possible for the other
+ * thread to touch the inode after it has been freed, with
+ * destroy_inode.
+ * XXX: yes it is because find_inode_fast checks it. Maybe we
+ * can avoid it though...
+ */
+ remove_inode_hash(inode);
wake_up_inode(inode);
BUG_ON(inode->i_state != I_CLEAR);
destroy_inode(inode);
@@ -1377,9 +1391,7 @@ int generic_detach_inode(struct inode *i
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
WARN_ON(inode->i_state & I_NEW);
inode->i_state &= ~I_WILL_FREE;
- spin_lock(&inode_hash_lock);
- hlist_del_init(&inode->i_hash);
- spin_unlock(&inode_hash_lock);
+ __remove_inode_hash(inode);
atomic_dec(&inodes_stat.nr_unused);
}
spin_lock(&wb_inode_list_lock);
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/fs.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2181,6 +2181,7 @@ extern int should_remove_suid(struct den
extern int file_remove_suid(struct file *);

extern void __insert_inode_hash(struct inode *, unsigned long hashval);
+extern void __remove_inode_hash(struct inode *);
extern void remove_inode_hash(struct inode *);
static inline void insert_inode_hash(struct inode *inode) {
__insert_inode_hash(inode, inode->i_ino);
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/writeback.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ struct backing_dev_info;

extern spinlock_t sb_inode_list_lock;
extern spinlock_t wb_inode_list_lock;
-extern spinlock_t inode_hash_lock;
extern struct list_head inode_in_use;
extern struct list_head inode_unused;



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