linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] killing boilerplate checks in ->link/->mkdir/->rename

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Message-ID: <1328547955.22240.39.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com>
Date:	Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:05:55 +0200
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] killing boilerplate checks in ->link/->mkdir/->rename

On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 13:56 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 10:50:44AM +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> 
> > WRT 'sen_nlink()' - I can use it instead of 'drop_nlink()'/'inc_nlink()'
> > of course. But I do not really see why is this better. E.g.,
> > 'drop_nlink()' additionally gives me ' WARN_ON()' in case of 'i_nlink'
> > wrapping.
> 
> So does inc_nlink() when you are asking to get from nlink=0 to nlink=1.
> I.e. on failure exit in your unlink()...

Indeed! I'll switch to 'clear_nlink(inode)' and 'set_nlink(inode, 1)'
for those inodes which are being unliked.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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