Re: [PATCH 02/10] vfs: check submounts and drop atomically

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On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 04:05:48PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

> +static void check_and_drop(void *_data, struct dentry *dentry)
> +{
> +	struct select_data *data = _data;
> +
> +	/* We're only interested in the root of this subtree */
> +	if (data->start == dentry) {
> +		if (d_mountpoint(dentry))
> +			data->found = -EBUSY;
> +		if (!data->found)
> +			__d_drop(dentry);
> +	}
> +}

Wouldn't it be better to do that in caller?  Granted, it's not a hot
path, but... why bother calling it for each dentry in a subtree, only
to return immediately on all calls but the last one?

> +static int __check_submounts_and_drop(struct dentry *parent,
> +					     struct list_head *dispose)
> +{
> +	struct select_data data = {
> +		.start = parent,
> +		.dispose = dispose,
> +		.found = 0,
> +	};
> +
> +	d_walk(parent, &data, check_and_collect, check_and_drop);
> +
> +	return data.found;
> +}

Incidentally, I would rather expand that in the only caller...

> +/**
> + * check_submounts_and_drop - prune dcache, check for submounts and drop
> + *
> + * All done as a single atomic operation relative to has_unlinked_ancestor().
> + * Returns 0 if successfully unhashed @parent.  If there were submounts then
> + * return -EBUSY.
> + *
> + * @dentry: dentry to prune and drop
> + */
> +int check_submounts_and_drop(struct dentry *dentry)
> +{
> +	int ret = 0;
> +
> +	/* Negative dentries can be dropped without further checks */
> +	if (!dentry->d_inode) {
> +		d_drop(dentry);
> +		goto out;
> +	}
> +
> +	spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
> +	if (d_unhashed(dentry))
> +		goto out_unlock;
> +	if (list_empty(&dentry->d_subdirs)) {
> +		if (d_mountpoint(dentry)) {
> +			ret = -EBUSY;
> +			goto out_unlock;
> +		}
> +		__d_drop(dentry);
> +		goto out_unlock;
> +	}
> +	spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
> +
> +	for (;;) {
> +		LIST_HEAD(dispose);
> +		ret = __check_submounts_and_drop(dentry, &dispose);
> +		if (!list_empty(&dispose))
> +			shrink_dentry_list(&dispose);
> +
> +		if (ret <= 0)
> +			break;
> +
> +		cond_resched();
> +	}
> +
> +out:
> +	return ret;
> +
> +out_unlock:
> +	spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
> +	goto out;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(check_submounts_and_drop);
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