linux-ext4 - [PATCH 07/12] ext4: start handle at the last possible moment in ext4

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Message-Id: <1360446832-12724-8-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu>
Date:	Sat,  9 Feb 2013 16:53:47 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH 07/12] ext4: start handle at the last possible moment in ext4_unlink()

Don't start the jbd2 transaction handle until after the directory
entry has been found, to minimize the amount of time that a handle is
held active.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
---
 fs/ext4/namei.c | 24 ++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index 5184103..4a27069 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -2787,7 +2787,7 @@ static int ext4_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 	struct inode *inode;
 	struct buffer_head *bh;
 	struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *de;
-	handle_t *handle;
+	handle_t *handle = NULL;
 
 	trace_ext4_unlink_enter(dir, dentry);
 	/* Initialize quotas before so that eventual writes go
@@ -2795,14 +2795,6 @@ static int ext4_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 	dquot_initialize(dir);
 	dquot_initialize(dentry->d_inode);
 
-	handle = ext4_journal_start(dir, EXT4_HT_DIR,
-				    EXT4_DELETE_TRANS_BLOCKS(dir->i_sb));
-	if (IS_ERR(handle))
-		return PTR_ERR(handle);
-
-	if (IS_DIRSYNC(dir))
-		ext4_handle_sync(handle);
-
 	retval = -ENOENT;
 	bh = ext4_find_entry(dir, &dentry->d_name, &de, NULL);
 	if (!bh)
@@ -2814,6 +2806,17 @@ static int ext4_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 	if (le32_to_cpu(de->inode) != inode->i_ino)
 		goto end_unlink;
 
+	handle = ext4_journal_start(dir, EXT4_HT_DIR,
+				    EXT4_DELETE_TRANS_BLOCKS(dir->i_sb));
+	if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
+		retval = PTR_ERR(handle);
+		handle = NULL;
+		goto end_unlink;
+	}
+
+	if (IS_DIRSYNC(dir))
+		ext4_handle_sync(handle);
+
 	if (!inode->i_nlink) {
 		ext4_warning(inode->i_sb,
 			     "Deleting nonexistent file (%lu), %d",
@@ -2834,8 +2837,9 @@ static int ext4_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 	retval = 0;
 
 end_unlink:
-	ext4_journal_stop(handle);
 	brelse(bh);
+	if (handle)
+		ext4_journal_stop(handle);
 	trace_ext4_unlink_exit(dentry, retval);
 	return retval;
 }
-- 
1.7.12.rc0.22.gcdd159b

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