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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: chengzhihao1 <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>
Cc: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
	 Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>,
	 mcoquelin stm32 <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>,
	 kirill shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	 Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
	 linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	 linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 05/15] ubifs: Rename whiteout atomically
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 21:58:09 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1600520564.248110.1641848289201.JavaMail.zimbra@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1422943582.246718.1641809643674.JavaMail.zimbra@nod.at>

----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
>> The whiteout inode is clean after creation from create_whiteout(), and
>> it can't be marked dirty until ubifs_jnl_rename() finished. So, I think
>> there is no chance for whiteout being written on disk. Then,
>> 'ubifs_assert(c, !whiteout_ui->dirty)' never fails in ubifs_jnl_rename()
>> during my local stress tests. You may add some delay executions after
>> whiteout creation to make sure that whiteout won't be written back
>> before ubifs_jnl_rename().
> 
> From UBIFS point of view I fully agree with you. I'm just a little puzzled why
> other filesystems use the tmpfile approach. My fear is that VFS can do things
> to the inode we don't have in mind right now.

After digging a bit into XFS I'm sure your approach is okay.
So, UBIFS can do a whiteout without help of tmpfiles. :-)

Thanks,
//richard

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-10 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-27  3:22 [PATCH v6 00/15] Some bugfixs for ubi/ubifs Zhihao Cheng
2021-12-27  3:22 ` [PATCH v6 01/15] ubifs: rename_whiteout: Fix double free for whiteout_ui->data Zhihao Cheng
2021-12-27  3:22 ` [PATCH v6 02/15] ubifs: Fix deadlock in concurrent rename whiteout and inode writeback Zhihao Cheng
2021-12-27  3:22 ` [PATCH v6 03/15] ubifs: Fix wrong number of inodes locked by ui_mutex in ubifs_inode comment Zhihao Cheng
2021-12-27  3:22 ` [PATCH v6 04/15] ubifs: Add missing iput if do_tmpfile() failed in rename whiteout Zhihao Cheng
2021-12-27  3:22 ` [PATCH v6 05/15] ubifs: Rename whiteout atomically Zhihao Cheng
2022-01-09 21:14   ` Richard Weinberger
2022-01-10  9:35     ` Zhihao Cheng
2022-01-10 10:14       ` Richard Weinberger
2022-01-10 20:58         ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2021-12-27  3:22 ` [PATCH v6 06/15] ubifs: Fix 'ui->dirty' race between do_tmpfile() and writeback work Zhihao Cheng
2021-12-27  3:22 ` [PATCH v6 07/15] ubifs: Rectify space amount budget for mkdir/tmpfile operations Zhihao Cheng
2021-12-27  3:22 ` [PATCH v6 08/15] ubifs: setflags: Make dirtied_ino_d 8 bytes aligned Zhihao Cheng
2021-12-27  3:22 ` [PATCH v6 09/15] ubifs: Fix read out-of-bounds in ubifs_wbuf_write_nolock() Zhihao Cheng
2021-12-27  3:22 ` [PATCH v6 10/15] ubifs: Fix to add refcount once page is set private Zhihao Cheng
2021-12-27  3:22 ` [PATCH v6 11/15] ubi: fastmap: Return error code if memory allocation fails in add_aeb() Zhihao Cheng
2021-12-27  3:22 ` [PATCH v6 12/15] ubi: fastmap: Add all fastmap pebs into 'ai->fastmap' when fm->used_blocks>=2 Zhihao Cheng
2022-01-10 23:23   ` Richard Weinberger
2022-01-11  2:48     ` Zhihao Cheng
2022-01-11  7:27       ` Richard Weinberger
2022-01-11 11:44         ` Zhihao Cheng
2022-01-11 11:57           ` Richard Weinberger
2022-01-11 13:23             ` Zhihao Cheng
2022-01-11 13:56               ` Richard Weinberger
2022-01-12  3:46                 ` Zhihao Cheng
2022-01-14 18:45                   ` Richard Weinberger
2022-01-15  8:22                     ` Zhihao Cheng
2022-01-15  8:46                       ` Zhihao Cheng
2022-01-15 10:01                         ` Richard Weinberger
2022-01-17  1:31                           ` Zhihao Cheng
2022-01-17  2:52                             ` Zhihao Cheng
2021-12-27  3:22 ` [PATCH v6 13/15] ubifs: ubifs_writepage: Mark page dirty after writing inode failed Zhihao Cheng
2021-12-27  3:22 ` [PATCH v6 14/15] ubifs: ubifs_releasepage: Remove ubifs_assert(0) to valid this process Zhihao Cheng
2021-12-27  3:22 ` [PATCH v6 15/15] ubi: fastmap: Fix high cpu usage of ubi_bgt by making sure wl_pool not empty Zhihao Cheng
2022-01-17  1:40   ` Zhihao Cheng
2021-12-27 10:13 ` [PATCH v6 00/15] Some bugfixs for ubi/ubifs Richard Weinberger
2021-12-27 12:19   ` Zhihao Cheng
2021-12-27 13:00     ` Richard Weinberger

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