* [PATCH] stop using igrab in xfs_vn_link
@ 2008-07-26 9:45 Christoph Hellwig
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From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2008-07-26 9:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: xfs
->link is guranteed to get an already reference inode passed so we
can do a simple increment of i_count instead of using igrab and thus
avoid banging on the global inode_lock. This is what most filesystems
already do.
Also move the increment after the call to xfs_link to simplify error
handling.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Index: linux-2.6-xfs/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-xfs.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c 2008-07-25 06:48:34.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6-xfs/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c 2008-07-25 06:49:30.000000000 +0200
@@ -359,20 +359,17 @@ xfs_vn_link(
struct inode *dir,
struct dentry *dentry)
{
- struct inode *inode; /* inode of guy being linked to */
+ struct inode *inode = old_dentry->d_inode;
struct xfs_name name;
int error;
- inode = old_dentry->d_inode;
xfs_dentry_to_name(&name, dentry);
- igrab(inode);
error = xfs_link(XFS_I(dir), XFS_I(inode), &name);
- if (unlikely(error)) {
- iput(inode);
+ if (unlikely(error))
return -error;
- }
+ atomic_inc(&inode->i_count);
d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
return 0;
}
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