From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] killing boilerplate checks in ->link/->mkdir/->rename
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:21:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1328599312.22240.43.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120206171152.GG23916@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 17:11 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 07:05:55PM +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 13:56 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 10:50:44AM +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > >
> > > > WRT 'sen_nlink()' - I can use it instead of 'drop_nlink()'/'inc_nlink()'
> > > > of course. But I do not really see why is this better. E.g.,
> > > > 'drop_nlink()' additionally gives me ' WARN_ON()' in case of 'i_nlink'
> > > > wrapping.
> > >
> > > So does inc_nlink() when you are asking to get from nlink=0 to nlink=1.
> > > I.e. on failure exit in your unlink()...
> >
> > Indeed! I'll switch to 'clear_nlink(inode)' and 'set_nlink(inode, 1)'
> > for those inodes which are being unliked.
>
> Huh? I thought ubifs allowed link(2)... IOW, i_nlink could've been greater
> than 1 when you called ubifs_unlink().
You are right, I'll take this correctly when I change the code rather
than writing an e-mail. Thanks! I think I'll submit a patch this week.
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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-30 21:56 sysfs regression: wrong link counts Jiri Slaby
2012-01-30 22:06 ` Greg KH
2012-01-30 22:10 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-30 22:27 ` Greg KH
2012-01-30 22:43 ` Al Viro
2012-01-30 22:56 ` Al Viro
2012-01-31 1:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 10:48 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 12:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 16:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-31 19:18 ` Al Viro
2012-02-01 5:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-01 22:21 ` [PATCH] sysfs: Optionally count subdirectories to support buggy applications Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-01 22:24 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-01 22:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-01 22:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-01 22:31 ` Dave Jones
2012-02-01 22:35 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-02-01 23:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-01 23:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-02 1:22 ` Al Viro
2012-02-02 21:24 ` [RFC] killing boilerplate checks in ->link/->mkdir/->rename Al Viro
2012-02-02 23:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-03 1:16 ` Al Viro
2012-02-03 1:45 ` Al Viro
2012-02-03 2:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-03 14:57 ` Chris Mason
2012-02-03 17:08 ` Al Viro
2012-02-03 19:34 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-06 8:50 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-06 13:56 ` Al Viro
2012-02-06 17:05 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-06 17:11 ` Al Viro
2012-02-07 7:21 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2012-02-06 22:49 ` Dave Chinner
2012-02-03 8:25 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-02-03 17:03 ` Al Viro
2012-02-04 7:42 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-03-05 13:30 ` [PATCH] sysfs: Optionally count subdirectories to support buggy applications Jiri Slaby
2012-03-05 16:09 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-03-05 16:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-03-08 21:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-03-08 22:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-08 23:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-03-08 21:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-08 21:34 ` [PATCH 1/3] sysfs: Compact sysfs_dirent s_flags into a byte Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-08 21:36 ` [PATCH 2/3] sysfs: Maintain usable nlink directory counts Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-08 21:37 ` [PATCH 3/3] sysfs: Remove SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED and use sd->s_nlink == 0 instead Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-09 3:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-03-08 22:28 ` [PATCH 1/3] sysfs: Compact sysfs_dirent s_flags into a byte Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-03-09 2:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 3:45 ` sysfs regression: wrong link counts Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 11:54 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-30 22:52 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 10:41 ` network regression: cannot rename netdev twice Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 10:52 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 11:00 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 11:13 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 11:17 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 11:58 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 14:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 14:40 ` [PATCH] sysfs: Update the name hash when renaming sysfs entries Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 14:41 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 14:55 ` Greg KH
2012-02-04 2:14 ` network regression: cannot rename netdev twice Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-02-06 20:03 ` Kay Sievers
2012-02-08 2:00 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-02-08 3:50 ` Kay Sievers
2012-02-08 6:42 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-02-08 10:57 ` Kay Sievers
2012-02-08 20:06 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-02-08 20:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-02-08 23:48 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 1:32 ` sysfs regression: wrong link counts Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-01 18:29 ` Maciej Rutecki
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