linux-kernel - [PATCH] ocfs2: retire ocfs2_drop_inode() and I_WILL

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Message-ID: <20250904154245.644875-1-mjguzik@gmail.com>
Date: Thu,  4 Sep 2025 17:42:45 +0200
From: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@...il.com>
To: ocfs2-devel@...ts.linux.dev
Cc: viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
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	Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ocfs2: retire ocfs2_drop_inode() and I_WILL_FREE usage

This postpones the writeout to ocfs2_evict_inode(), which I'm told is
fine (tm).

The intent is to retire the I_WILL_FREE flag.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@...il.com>
---

ACHTUNG: only compile-time tested. Need an ocfs2 person to ack it.

btw grep shows comments referencing ocfs2_drop_inode() which are already
stale on the stock kernel, I opted to not touch them.

This ties into an effort to remove the I_WILL_FREE flag, unblocking
other work. If accepted would be probably best taken through vfs
branches with said work, see https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git/log/?h=vfs-6.18.inode.refcount.preliminaries

 fs/ocfs2/inode.c       | 23 ++---------------------
 fs/ocfs2/inode.h       |  1 -
 fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_trace.h |  2 --
 fs/ocfs2/super.c       |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
index 6c4f78f473fb..5f4a2cbc505d 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
@@ -1290,6 +1290,8 @@ static void ocfs2_clear_inode(struct inode *inode)
 
 void ocfs2_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 {
+	write_inode_now(inode, 1);
+
 	if (!inode->i_nlink ||
 	    (OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_flags & OCFS2_INODE_MAYBE_ORPHANED)) {
 		ocfs2_delete_inode(inode);
@@ -1299,27 +1301,6 @@ void ocfs2_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 	ocfs2_clear_inode(inode);
 }
 
-/* Called under inode_lock, with no more references on the
- * struct inode, so it's safe here to check the flags field
- * and to manipulate i_nlink without any other locks. */
-int ocfs2_drop_inode(struct inode *inode)
-{
-	struct ocfs2_inode_info *oi = OCFS2_I(inode);
-
-	trace_ocfs2_drop_inode((unsigned long long)oi->ip_blkno,
-				inode->i_nlink, oi->ip_flags);
-
-	assert_spin_locked(&inode->i_lock);
-	inode->i_state |= I_WILL_FREE;
-	spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
-	write_inode_now(inode, 1);
-	spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
-	WARN_ON(inode->i_state & I_NEW);
-	inode->i_state &= ~I_WILL_FREE;
-
-	return 1;
-}
-
 /*
  * This is called from our getattr.
  */
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/inode.h b/fs/ocfs2/inode.h
index accf03d4765e..07bd838e7843 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/inode.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/inode.h
@@ -116,7 +116,6 @@ static inline struct ocfs2_caching_info *INODE_CACHE(struct inode *inode)
 }
 
 void ocfs2_evict_inode(struct inode *inode);
-int ocfs2_drop_inode(struct inode *inode);
 
 /* Flags for ocfs2_iget() */
 #define OCFS2_FI_FLAG_SYSFILE		0x1
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_trace.h b/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_trace.h
index 54ed1495de9a..4b32fb5658ad 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_trace.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_trace.h
@@ -1569,8 +1569,6 @@ DEFINE_OCFS2_ULL_ULL_UINT_EVENT(ocfs2_delete_inode);
 
 DEFINE_OCFS2_ULL_UINT_EVENT(ocfs2_clear_inode);
 
-DEFINE_OCFS2_ULL_UINT_UINT_EVENT(ocfs2_drop_inode);
-
 TRACE_EVENT(ocfs2_inode_revalidate,
 	TP_PROTO(void *inode, unsigned long long ino,
 		 unsigned int flags),
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/super.c b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
index 53daa4482406..e4b0d25f4869 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/super.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ static const struct super_operations ocfs2_sops = {
 	.statfs		= ocfs2_statfs,
 	.alloc_inode	= ocfs2_alloc_inode,
 	.free_inode	= ocfs2_free_inode,
-	.drop_inode	= ocfs2_drop_inode,
+	.drop_inode	= generic_delete_inode,
 	.evict_inode	= ocfs2_evict_inode,
 	.sync_fs	= ocfs2_sync_fs,
 	.put_super	= ocfs2_put_super,
-- 
2.43.0