Re: [PATCH 1/2] lockref: make lockref count signed

From: Steven Noonan
Date: Tue Aug 05 2014 - 17:47:04 EST


On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:44 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 12:52:27 -0700 Steven Noonan <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> There are numerous places where this is casted to a signed value anyway, for
>> comparisons checking that the value hasn't been set to the 'dead' value of
>> -128. This change turns the count value into a signed integer, which is how
>> it's already being treated anyway. This reduces the chance for developer errors
>> when making those comparisons.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks! But you missed one "(int)" removal :-)
>
> fs/autofs4/root.c: if ((int) d_count(active) <= 0)

Ahh, yeah. The return type of d_count() also needs to be fixed up.
I'll send a new version in a few minutes...

> NeilBrown
>
>> ---
>> fs/dcache.c | 6 +++---
>> include/linux/lockref.h | 2 +-
>> lib/lockref.c | 4 ++--
>> 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
>> index 06f6585..f7a592e 100644
>> --- a/fs/dcache.c
>> +++ b/fs/dcache.c
>> @@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ static void __dentry_kill(struct dentry *dentry)
>> * dentry_iput drops the locks, at which point nobody (except
>> * transient RCU lookups) can reach this dentry.
>> */
>> - BUG_ON((int)dentry->d_lockref.count > 0);
>> + BUG_ON(dentry->d_lockref.count > 0);
>> this_cpu_dec(nr_dentry);
>> if (dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_release)
>> dentry->d_op->d_release(dentry);
>> @@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ static inline struct dentry *lock_parent(struct dentry *dentry)
>> struct dentry *parent = dentry->d_parent;
>> if (IS_ROOT(dentry))
>> return NULL;
>> - if (unlikely((int)dentry->d_lockref.count < 0))
>> + if (unlikely(dentry->d_lockref.count < 0))
>> return NULL;
>> if (likely(spin_trylock(&parent->d_lock)))
>> return parent;
>> @@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ static void shrink_dentry_list(struct list_head *list)
>> * We found an inuse dentry which was not removed from
>> * the LRU because of laziness during lookup. Do not free it.
>> */
>> - if ((int)dentry->d_lockref.count > 0) {
>> + if (dentry->d_lockref.count > 0) {
>> spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
>> if (parent)
>> spin_unlock(&parent->d_lock);
>> diff --git a/include/linux/lockref.h b/include/linux/lockref.h
>> index 4bfde0e..8558ff1 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/lockref.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/lockref.h
>> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ struct lockref {
>> #endif
>> struct {
>> spinlock_t lock;
>> - unsigned int count;
>> + int count;
>> };
>> };
>> };
>> diff --git a/lib/lockref.c b/lib/lockref.c
>> index d2233de..e4c4255 100644
>> --- a/lib/lockref.c
>> +++ b/lib/lockref.c
>> @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ int lockref_get_not_dead(struct lockref *lockref)
>>
>> CMPXCHG_LOOP(
>> new.count++;
>> - if ((int)old.count < 0)
>> + if (old.count < 0)
>> return 0;
>> ,
>> return 1;
>> @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ int lockref_get_not_dead(struct lockref *lockref)
>>
>> spin_lock(&lockref->lock);
>> retval = 0;
>> - if ((int) lockref->count >= 0) {
>> + if (lockref->count >= 0) {
>> lockref->count++;
>> retval = 1;
>> }
>
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