[PATCH 19/20] kill DCACHE_MAY_FREE

From: Al Viro
Date: Fri Nov 24 2023 - 01:19:15 EST


With the new ordering in __dentry_kill() it has become redundant -
it's set if and only if both DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED and DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST
are set.

We set it in __dentry_kill(), after having set DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED
with the only condition being that DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST is there;
all of that is done without dropping ->d_lock and the only place
that checks that flag (shrink_dentry_list()) does so under ->d_lock,
after having found the victim on its shrink list. Since DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST
is set only when placing dentry into shrink list and removed only by
shrink_dentry_list() itself, a check for DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED in
there would be equivalent to check for DCACHE_MAY_FREE.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/dcache.c | 6 ++----
include/linux/dcache.h | 1 -
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 26080f094508..64d8c1d36acb 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -614,10 +614,8 @@ static struct dentry *__dentry_kill(struct dentry *dentry)
}
spin_lock_nested(&dentry->d_lock, DENTRY_D_LOCK_NESTED);
dentry_unlist(dentry);
- if (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST) {
- dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_MAY_FREE;
+ if (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST)
can_free = false;
- }
spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
if (likely(can_free))
dentry_free(dentry);
@@ -1072,7 +1070,7 @@ void shrink_dentry_list(struct list_head *list)
bool can_free;
rcu_read_unlock();
d_shrink_del(dentry);
- can_free = dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_MAY_FREE;
+ can_free = dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED;
spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
if (can_free)
dentry_free(dentry);
diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index b4449a1a47ff..48b393545ec2 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -202,7 +202,6 @@ struct dentry_operations {
#define DCACHE_SPECIAL_TYPE (5 << 20) /* Other file type */
#define DCACHE_SYMLINK_TYPE (6 << 20) /* Symlink */

-#define DCACHE_MAY_FREE BIT(23)
#define DCACHE_NOKEY_NAME BIT(25) /* Encrypted name encoded without key */
#define DCACHE_OP_REAL BIT(26)

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2.39.2