From: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
in preparation for switching the VFS inode cache over the hlist_bl
lists, we nee dto be able to fake a list node that looks like it is
hased for correct operation of filesystems that don't directly use
the VFS indoe cache.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
---
include/linux/list_bl.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/list_bl.h b/include/linux/list_bl.h
index ae1b541446c9..8ee2bf5af131 100644
--- a/include/linux/list_bl.h
+++ b/include/linux/list_bl.h
@@ -143,6 +143,28 @@ static inline void hlist_bl_del_init(struct hlist_bl_node *n)
}
}
+/**
+ * hlist_bl_add_fake - create a fake list consisting of a single headless node
+ * @n: Node to make a fake list out of
+ *
+ * This makes @n appear to be its own predecessor on a headless hlist.
+ * The point of this is to allow things like hlist_bl_del() to work correctly
+ * in cases where there is no list.
+ */
+static inline void hlist_bl_add_fake(struct hlist_bl_node *n)
+{
+ n->pprev = &n->next;
+}
+
+/**
+ * hlist_fake: Is this node a fake hlist_bl?
+ * @h: Node to check for being a self-referential fake hlist.
+ */
+static inline bool hlist_bl_fake(struct hlist_bl_node *n)
+{
+ return n->pprev == &n->next;
+}
+
static inline void hlist_bl_lock(struct hlist_bl_head *b)
{
bit_spin_lock(0, (unsigned long *)b);
--
2.42.0
On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 05:05:36PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
>
> in preparation for switching the VFS inode cache over the hlist_bl
> lists, we nee dto be able to fake a list node that looks like it is
> hased for correct operation of filesystems that don't directly use
> the VFS indoe cache.
I'd probably put it as "we need hlist_bl counterparts of hlist_fake()
and hlist_add_fake()"...