From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] iput() cleanup (was Re: [patch 12/16] fix race between writeback and unlink)
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 10:26:30 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020603162630.GC7905@turbolinux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CF91E48.C76B34FA@zip.com.au> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206022119300.1030-100000@home.transmeta.com>
On Jun 02, 2002 21:27 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> This is a first cut at cleaning up "iput()" and getting rid of some of the
> magic VFS-level behaviour of the i_nlink field which many filesystems do
> not actually want - as shown by the number of "force_delete" users out
> there.
>
> It does not change any real behaviour, but it splits up the "iput()"
> behaviour into several functions ("common_delete_inode()",
> "common_forget_inode()" and "common_drop_inode()"), and adds a place for a
> low-level filesystem to hook into the behaviour at inode drop time,
> through the "drop_inode" superblock operation.
If I had one minor note it would be to rename "common_*()" to "generic_*()"
to match the other VFS helper routines.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-03 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-01 8:43 [patch 12/16] fix race between writeback and unlink Andrew Morton
2002-06-01 16:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-01 19:19 ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-01 20:04 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-06-01 22:25 ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-03 4:27 ` [RFC] iput() cleanup (was Re: [patch 12/16] fix race between writeback and unlink) Linus Torvalds
2002-06-03 16:26 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2002-06-03 16:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-03 19:09 ` Chris Mason
2002-06-03 19:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-03 19:49 ` Chris Mason
2002-06-03 19:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-03 22:10 ` [patch 12/16] fix race between writeback and unlink Chris Mason
2002-06-03 22:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-03 22:30 ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-04 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-04 20:15 ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-04 20:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-04 20:40 ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-04 21:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-04 22:04 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-06-04 22:08 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-07 20:38 ` Riley Williams
2002-06-04 22:05 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2002-06-04 22:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-03 22:36 ` Chris Mason
2002-06-03 22:47 ` Andrew Morton
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