linux-kernel - [PATCH] erofs: use inode_set_cached

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Message-ID: <20260128045854.2266287-1-hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:58:54 +0800
From: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>
To: linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>
Subject: [PATCH] erofs: use inode_set_cached_link()

Symlink lengths are now cached in in-memory inodes directly so that
readlink can be sped up.

Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>
---
 fs/erofs/inode.c | 28 +++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/erofs/inode.c b/fs/erofs/inode.c
index 2e02d4b466ce..6afe487eb9be 100644
--- a/fs/erofs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/erofs/inode.c
@@ -8,21 +8,23 @@
 #include <linux/compat.h>
 #include <trace/events/erofs.h>
 
-static int erofs_fill_symlink(struct inode *inode, void *kaddr,
-			      unsigned int m_pofs)
+static int erofs_fill_symlink(struct inode *inode, void *bptr, unsigned int ofs)
 {
 	struct erofs_inode *vi = EROFS_I(inode);
-	loff_t off;
-
-	m_pofs += vi->xattr_isize;
-	/* check if it cannot be handled with fast symlink scheme */
-	if (vi->datalayout != EROFS_INODE_FLAT_INLINE ||
-	    check_add_overflow(m_pofs, inode->i_size, &off) ||
-	    off > i_blocksize(inode))
-		return 0;
-
-	inode->i_link = kmemdup_nul(kaddr + m_pofs, inode->i_size, GFP_KERNEL);
-	return inode->i_link ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
+	char *link;
+	loff_t end;
+
+	ofs += vi->xattr_isize;
+	/* check whether the symlink data is small enough to be inlined */
+	if (vi->datalayout == EROFS_INODE_FLAT_INLINE &&
+	    !check_add_overflow(ofs, inode->i_size, &end) &&
+	    end <= i_blocksize(inode)) {
+		link = kmemdup_nul(bptr + ofs, inode->i_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!link)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+		inode_set_cached_link(inode, link, inode->i_size);
+	}
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static int erofs_read_inode(struct inode *inode)
-- 
2.43.5