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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 01:26:44 +0000
From: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@...era.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-ntfs-dev@...ts.sourceforge.net"
<linux-ntfs-dev@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Linux 5.16-rc1
Hi Linus,
> On 18 Nov 2021, at 00:28, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 3:29 PM Anton Altaparmakov <anton@...era.com> wrote:
>>
>> What we need here is an array to store pointers to in-memory inodes that correspond to inodes in the inode table page being written out.
>
> Do we actually need the array?
>
> The ntfs_inode pointers in that array are always locked (using
> 'mrec_lock'), so ti could be just a linked list of entries.
>
> Yeah, that would require adding a 'next' pointer to 'struct
> _ntfs_inode', but maybe that would be the right thing to do?
>
> I don't know the code, but it looks to me like it's literally just a
> stack of locked ntfs_inode pointers - where the lock is taken before
> adding it to the stack, and released after taking it off the stack. So
> a singly-linked list would seem to be a very simple implementation.
Thanks for the idea. Yes, you are correct. That would be a viable alternative at the cost of that extra pointer in the ntfs_inode structure.
I am concerned that whilst this would fix this compiler warning, we have other such arrays in fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and ntfs_sync_mft_mirror() where in each of those functions we have:
struct buffer_head *bhs[MAX_BHS];
And at the top of mft.c we have:
#define MAX_BHS (PAGE_SIZE / NTFS_BLOCK_SIZE)
So those arrays are each the same size as the one the compiler warns about in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() where we have:
ntfs_inode *locked_nis[PAGE_SIZE / NTFS_BLOCK_SIZE];
So is it worth doing the singly linked list to fix one file only to have compilation fail a few files later when it gets to mft.c?
Best regards,
Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <anton at tuxera.com> (replace at with @)
Lead in File System Development, Tuxera Inc., http://www.tuxera.com/
Linux NTFS maintainer
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