Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933356Ab2HVU4O (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:56:14 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:46274 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933298Ab2HVU4G (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:56:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:55:57 -0400 From: Aristeu Rozanski To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Tejun Heo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, Li Zefan , Hillf Danton , Lennart Poettering Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] xattr: extract simple_xattr code from tmpfs Message-ID: <20120822205556.GE16951@redhat.com> References: <20120816174453.154143248@napanee.usersys.redhat.com> <20120816174453.507922179@napanee.usersys.redhat.com> <20120816195831.GF24861@google.com> <20120820190039.GR25353@redhat.com> <20120822200746.GD16951@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1812 Lines: 43 On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:25:06PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > Probably more important would be to remove spin_lock() and spin_unlock() > > > (and INIT_LIST_HEAD) from simple_xattrs_free() - those are unnecessary > > > in shmem_evict_inode(), and wouldn't they be unnecessary whenever > > > simple_xattrs_free() gets called? > > > > Removing INIT_LIST_HEAD() it's possible by actually unlinking each xattr > > inside the loop before freeing them. still, it'll have to check if the list is > > empty or not, which might end up being the same? > > > > About the locking, I'm not sure, I'm investigating it. > > I think we have a misunderstanding. > > INIT_LIST_HEAD() is not expensive, I just meant to remove it because > I thought it unnecessary by that point. ah, I see. > Do you envisage anywhere that would call simple_xattrs_free() except > a filesystem's evict_inode()? cgroup does it differently and it's called in d_iput() path (see cgroup_diput), because it needs to selectively remove files upon remount. > By that point, the inode is on its way out of the system: nothing > much (yes, I am being a bit vague there ;) can get to it any more, > there's no need to reinitialize the list head and there's no need for > locking, because nothing else can be playing with those xattrs now. I agree with you. That's why I'm looking into it because I'm pretty sure I removed it at some point in the past and decided to put it back after investigating the easily reproducible oops. Sadly I managed to forget the analisys I did at the time. -- Aristeu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/