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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] xfs: inode fork allocation depends on XFS_IFEXTENT flag
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 08:06:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210402070658.GG1739516@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210330053059.1339949-3-david@fromorbit.com>

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 04:30:57PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_fork.c
> @@ -292,6 +292,15 @@ xfs_ifork_alloc(
>  	ifp = kmem_cache_zalloc(xfs_ifork_zone, GFP_NOFS | __GFP_NOFAIL);
>  	ifp->if_format = format;
>  	ifp->if_nextents = nextents;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * If this is a caller initialising a newly created fork, we need to
> +	 * set XFS_IFEXTENTS to indicate the fork state is completely up to
> +	 * date. Otherwise it is up to the caller to initialise the in-memory
> +	 * state of the inode fork from the on-disk state.
> +	 */
> +	if (format == XFS_DINODE_FMT_EXTENTS && nextents == 0)
> +		ifp->if_flags |= XFS_IFEXTENTS;
>  	return ifp;

I'm not sure this is a good idea.  I'd rather set XFS_IFEXTENTS manually
in xfs_init_new_inode until we sort out the whole flags thing.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-02  7:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-30  5:30 [PATCH 0/4] xfs: fix eager attr fork init regressions Dave Chinner
2021-03-30  5:30 ` [PATCH 1/4] xfs: eager inode attr fork init needs attr feature awareness Dave Chinner
2021-03-30 18:10   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-04-02  6:48   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-30  5:30 ` [PATCH 2/4] xfs: inode fork allocation depends on XFS_IFEXTENT flag Dave Chinner
2021-03-30 18:06   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-30 21:40     ` Dave Chinner
2021-04-02  7:02       ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-03 22:21         ` Dave Chinner
2021-04-04  3:25       ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-04-02  7:06   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-03-30  5:30 ` [PATCH 3/4] xfs: default attr fork size does not handle device inodes Dave Chinner
2021-03-30 18:10   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-04-02  7:08   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-30  5:30 ` [PATCH 4/4] xfs: precalculate default inode attribute offset Dave Chinner
2021-03-30 18:10   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-04-02  7:10   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-03 22:16     ` Dave Chinner
2021-04-06 11:59 [PATCH 0/4 v2] xfs: fix eager attr fork init regressions Dave Chinner
2021-04-06 11:59 ` [PATCH 2/4] xfs: inode fork allocation depends on XFS_IFEXTENT flag Dave Chinner
2021-04-06 13:10   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-06 20:07   ` Allison Henderson

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