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Date:	Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:04:49 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
Cc:	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jack@...e.cz, hch@...radead.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, toshi.okajima@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/13] filesystems: add set_nlink()

Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 16:49 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
>> 
>> Replace remaining direct i_nlink updates with a new set_nlink()
>> updater function.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
>> ---
> [snip]
>
>
>
>> diff --git a/fs/gfs2/glops.c b/fs/gfs2/glops.c
>> index da21eca..102cf5e 100644
>> --- a/fs/gfs2/glops.c
>> +++ b/fs/gfs2/glops.c
>> @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ static void gfs2_set_nlink(struct inode *inode, u32 nlink)
>>  		if (nlink == 0)
>>  			clear_nlink(inode);
>>  		else
>> -			inode->i_nlink = nlink;
>> +			set_nlink(inode, nlink);
>>  	}
>>  }
>
> So long as it is ok to call set_nlink() with nlink == 0, then the if
> statement here can be removed and just replaced with set_nlink()

Current patchset will WARN if set_nlink() is called with nlink == 0.  I
think it's cleaner to keep the two cases separate.

Thanks,
Miklos
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