On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 08:01:18PM -0800, harshadshirwadkar@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > +static bool +ext4_dx_delete_entry(handle_t *handle, struct inode *dir, + struct dx_frame *dx_frame, __le64 block) +{ > The function name is a bit problematic. The ext4_find_entry, ext4_dx_find_entry, ext4_delete_entry() all operate on the directory entry. This is doing something different --- it's operating to remove the hash tree dx entry. So something maybe like ext4_remove_dx_entry()? And we definitely need some documentation for this function. Also, I think we can drop last argument, since you can get it from cpu_to_le64(dx_get_block(dx_frame->at)). > + > +static inline bool should_try_dx_delete(struct dx_frame *dx_frame, > + struct buffer_head *bh, > + struct inode *dir) > +{ > + return dx_frame && dx_frame->bh && is_empty_dirent_block(dir, bh) && > + dx_get_block(dx_frame->at) == > + (dir->i_size - 1) >> dir->i_sb->s_blocksize_bits; > +} As above, I'm not sure this is a great name for the function --- and for that matter, I'm not sure it's worth it to separate this out. First of all, we want to be able to truncate non-indexed directory, not just indexed directories. So moving this logic into ext4_delete_entry() probably makes sense. If the directory is not indexed, it's really trivial to truncate it --- and the xfstests change you submitted would fail on file system configurations if the dir_index feature is not set, so we should really do that simple case while we're at it. > -static struct buffer_head * ext4_find_entry (struct inode *dir, > - const struct qstr *d_name, > - struct ext4_dir_entry_2 **res_dir, > - int *inlined) > +static struct buffer_head *ext4_find_entry(struct inode *dir, > + const struct qstr *d_name, > + struct ext4_dir_entry_2 **res_dir, > + int *inlined, > + struct dx_frame *dx_frame) Could you add some documentation for this function --- specifically, why a caller might want to pass in dx_frame, and what it's used for? BTW, ext4_rmdir() should have also been modified to pass in dx_frame when calling ext4_find_entry(). Right now with this patch, if the last entry is a directory, when it's rmdir'ed, since ext4_rmdir() doesn't have the plumbing to pass dx_frame to ext4_delete_entry(), we'll end up leaving an empty directory entry on the directory entry. Thanks, - Ted