Commit fdb0da89 authored by Al Viro's avatar Al Viro
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new inode method: ->free_inode() 



A lot of ->destroy_inode() instances end with call_rcu() of a callback
that does RCU-delayed part of freeing.  Introduce a new method for
doing just that, with saner signature.

Rules:
->destroy_inode		->free_inode
	f			g		immediate call of f(),
						RCU-delayed call of g()
	f			NULL		immediate call of f(),
						no RCU-delayed calls
	NULL			g		RCU-delayed call of g()
	NULL			NULL		RCU-delayed default freeing

IOW, NULL ->free_inode gives the same behaviour as now.

Note that NULL, NULL is equivalent to NULL, free_inode_nonrcu; we could
mandate the latter form, but that would have very little benefit beyond
making rules a bit more symmetric.  It would break backwards compatibility,
require extra boilerplate and expected semantics for (NULL, NULL) pair
would have no use whatsoever...

Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
parent ad7999cd

Documentation/filesystems/Locking

+2 −0
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@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ set: exclusive 
--------------------------- super_operations ---------------------------

prototypes:

	struct inode *(*alloc_inode)(struct super_block *sb);

	void (*free_inode)(struct inode *);

	void (*destroy_inode)(struct inode *);

	void (*dirty_inode) (struct inode *, int flags);

	int (*write_inode) (struct inode *, struct writeback_control *wbc);
@@ -139,6 +140,7 @@ locking rules: 
	All may block [not true, see below]

			s_umount

alloc_inode:

free_inode:				called from RCU callback

destroy_inode:

dirty_inode:

write_inode:

Documentation/filesystems/porting

+25 −0
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@@ -638,3 +638,28 @@ in your dentry operations instead. 
	inode to d_splice_alias() will also do the right thing (equivalent of

	d_add(dentry, NULL); return NULL;), so that kind of special cases

	also doesn't need a separate treatment.

--

[strongly recommended]

	take the RCU-delayed parts of ->destroy_inode() into a new method -

	->free_inode().  If ->destroy_inode() becomes empty - all the better,

	just get rid of it.  Synchronous work (e.g. the stuff that can't

	be done from an RCU callback, or any WARN_ON() where we want the

	stack trace) *might* be movable to ->evict_inode(); however,

	that goes only for the things that are not needed to balance something

	done by ->alloc_inode().  IOW, if it's cleaning up the stuff that

	might have accumulated over the life of in-core inode, ->evict_inode()

	might be a fit.



	Rules for inode destruction:

		* if ->destroy_inode() is non-NULL, it gets called

		* if ->free_inode() is non-NULL, it gets scheduled by call_rcu()

		* combination of NULL ->destroy_inode and NULL ->free_inode is

		  treated as NULL/free_inode_nonrcu, to preserve the compatibility.



	Note that the callback (be it via ->free_inode() or explicit call_rcu()

	in ->destroy_inode()) is *NOT* ordered wrt superblock destruction;

	as the matter of fact, the superblock and all associated structures

	might be already gone.  The filesystem driver is guaranteed to be still

	there, but that's it.  Freeing memory in the callback is fine; doing

	more than that is possible, but requires a lot of care and is best

	avoided.

fs/inode.c

+34 −22
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@@ -202,12 +202,28 @@ out: 
}

EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_init_always);



void free_inode_nonrcu(struct inode *inode)

{

	kmem_cache_free(inode_cachep, inode);

}

EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_inode_nonrcu);



static void i_callback(struct rcu_head *head)

{

	struct inode *inode = container_of(head, struct inode, i_rcu);

	if (inode->free_inode)

		inode->free_inode(inode);

	else

		free_inode_nonrcu(inode);

}



static struct inode *alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)

{

	const struct super_operations *ops = sb->s_op;

	struct inode *inode;



	if (sb->s_op->alloc_inode)

		inode = sb->s_op->alloc_inode(sb);

	if (ops->alloc_inode)

		inode = ops->alloc_inode(sb);

	else

		inode = kmem_cache_alloc(inode_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -215,21 +231,18 @@ static struct inode *alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb) 
		return NULL;



	if (unlikely(inode_init_always(sb, inode))) {

		if (inode->i_sb->s_op->destroy_inode)

			inode->i_sb->s_op->destroy_inode(inode);

		else

			kmem_cache_free(inode_cachep, inode);

		if (ops->destroy_inode) {

			ops->destroy_inode(inode);

			if (!ops->free_inode)

				return NULL;

		}



	return inode;

		inode->free_inode = ops->free_inode;

		i_callback(&inode->i_rcu);

		return NULL;

	}



void free_inode_nonrcu(struct inode *inode)

{

	kmem_cache_free(inode_cachep, inode);

	return inode;

}

EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_inode_nonrcu);



void __destroy_inode(struct inode *inode)

{
@@ -253,19 +266,18 @@ void __destroy_inode(struct inode *inode) 
}

EXPORT_SYMBOL(__destroy_inode);



static void i_callback(struct rcu_head *head)

{

	struct inode *inode = container_of(head, struct inode, i_rcu);

	kmem_cache_free(inode_cachep, inode);

}



static void destroy_inode(struct inode *inode)

{

	const struct super_operations *ops = inode->i_sb->s_op;



	BUG_ON(!list_empty(&inode->i_lru));

	__destroy_inode(inode);

	if (inode->i_sb->s_op->destroy_inode)

		inode->i_sb->s_op->destroy_inode(inode);

	else

	if (ops->destroy_inode) {

		ops->destroy_inode(inode);

		if (!ops->free_inode)

			return;

	}

	inode->free_inode = ops->free_inode;

	call_rcu(&inode->i_rcu, i_callback);

}

include/linux/fs.h

+5 −1
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@@ -694,7 +694,10 @@ struct inode { 
#ifdef CONFIG_IMA

	atomic_t		i_readcount; /* struct files open RO */

#endif

	union {

		const struct file_operations	*i_fop;	/* former ->i_op->default_file_ops */

		void (*free_inode)(struct inode *);

	};

	struct file_lock_context	*i_flctx;

	struct address_space	i_data;

	struct list_head	i_devices;
@@ -1903,6 +1906,7 @@ extern loff_t vfs_dedupe_file_range_one(struct file *src_file, loff_t src_pos, 
struct super_operations {

   	struct inode *(*alloc_inode)(struct super_block *sb);

	void (*destroy_inode)(struct inode *);

	void (*free_inode)(struct inode *);



   	void (*dirty_inode) (struct inode *, int flags);

	int (*write_inode) (struct inode *, struct writeback_control *wbc);

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