linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] make last_inode counter in new_inode 32-bit on kernels that offer x86 compatability

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Message-Id: <1162922488.28425.51.camel@dantu.rdu.redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:01:28 -0500
From:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
To:	Jörn Engel <joern@...nheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make last_inode counter in new_inode 32-bit on kernels
	that offer x86 compatability

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 18:28 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:

> Looking at the callers, it seemed a bit more natural to me to call
> new_inode_autonum(sb) than new_inode_autonum(sb, 1).  Would you mind
> turning new_inode_autonum() in a wrapper like new_inode() and putting
> the actual code into a static helper?
> 
> Anyway, here is a first patch converting some callers that looked
> obvious.
> 
> Jörn

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, I held back on converting any filesystems
until I had some comments. Thanks for doing the legwork on that part.
Here's a respun patch with the suggested modification to
new_inode_autonum. This also adds it to fs.h.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>

diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 26cdb11..dd96799 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -517,14 +517,14 @@ repeat:
 }
 
 /**
- *	new_inode 	- obtain an inode
+ *	__new_inode 	- obtain an inode
  *	@sb: superblock
+ *      @autonum: if true, make sure that i_ino is unique
  *
  *	Allocates a new inode for given superblock.
  */
-struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *sb)
+static struct inode *__new_inode(struct super_block *sb, int autonum)
 {
-	static unsigned long last_ino;
 	struct inode * inode;
 
 	spin_lock_prefetch(&inode_lock);
@@ -535,13 +535,42 @@ struct inode *new_inode(struct super_blo
 		inodes_stat.nr_inodes++;
 		list_add(&inode->i_list, &inode_in_use);
 		list_add(&inode->i_sb_list, &sb->s_inodes);
-		inode->i_ino = ++last_ino;
+		if (autonum)
+			inode->i_ino = iunique(sb, 0);
+		else
+			inode->i_ino = ++sb->s_lastino;
 		inode->i_state = 0;
 		spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
 	}
 	return inode;
 }
 
+/**
+ *	new_inode_autonum 	- obtain an inode with a unique i_ino value
+ *	@sb: superblock
+ *
+ *	Allocates a new inode for given superblock. Ensures that i_ino is
+ *	unique on the filesystem.
+ */
+struct inode *new_inode_autonum(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	return __new_inode(sb, 1);
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(new_inode_autonum);
+
+/**
+ *	new_inode 	- obtain an inode -- i_ino not guaranteed unique
+ *	@sb: superblock
+ *
+ *	Allocates a new inode for given superblock. i_ino is not guaranteed to
+ *	be unique. Should only be used when i_ino is going to be clobbered.
+ */
+struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	return __new_inode(sb, 0);
+}
+
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(new_inode);
 
 void unlock_new_inode(struct inode *inode)
@@ -683,22 +712,21 @@ static unsigned long hash(struct super_b
  */
 ino_t iunique(struct super_block *sb, ino_t max_reserved)
 {
-	static ino_t counter;
 	struct inode *inode;
 	struct hlist_head * head;
 	ino_t res;
 	spin_lock(&inode_lock);
 retry:
-	if (counter > max_reserved) {
-		head = inode_hashtable + hash(sb,counter);
-		res = counter++;
+	if (sb->s_lastino >= max_reserved) {
+		res = ++sb->s_lastino;
+		head = inode_hashtable + hash(sb,res);
 		inode = find_inode_fast(sb, head, res);
 		if (!inode) {
 			spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
 			return res;
 		}
 	} else {
-		counter = max_reserved + 1;
+		 sb->s_lastino = max_reserved;
 	}
 	goto retry;
 	
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 2fe6e3f..d85c7ba 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -961,6 +961,14 @@ #endif
 	/* Granularity of c/m/atime in ns.
 	   Cannot be worse than a second */
 	u32		   s_time_gran;
+
+	/* per-sb inode counter for new_inode. Make it a 32-bit counter when
+	   we have the possibility of dealing with 32-bit apps */
+#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
+	unsigned int		s_lastino;
+#else
+	unsigned long		s_lastino;
+#endif
 };
 
 extern struct timespec current_fs_time(struct super_block *sb);
@@ -1712,6 +1720,7 @@ extern void __iget(struct inode * inode)
 extern void clear_inode(struct inode *);
 extern void destroy_inode(struct inode *);
 extern struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *);
+extern struct inode *new_inode_autonum(struct super_block *);
 extern int __remove_suid(struct dentry *, int);
 extern int should_remove_suid(struct dentry *);
 extern int remove_suid(struct dentry *);



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