On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 03:51:42PM -0700, Allison Henderson wrote: > On 10/09/2017 02:25 PM, Allison Henderson wrote: > >On 10/8/2017 9:20 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > >>On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 03:05:33PM -0700, Allison Henderson wrote: > >>>Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@xxxxxxxxxx> > >>> /* > >>> * Inode Log Item Format definitions. > >>>@@ -863,4 +872,45 @@ struct xfs_icreate_log { > >>> __be32 icl_gen; /* inode generation number to use */ > >>> }; > >>> +/* Flags for defered attribute operations */ > >>>+#define ATTR_OP_FLAGS_SET 0x01 /* Set the attribute */ > >>>+#define ATTR_OP_FLAGS_REMOVE 0x02 /* Remove the attribute */ > >>>+#define ATTR_OP_FLAGS_MAX 0x02 /* Max flags */ > >>>+ > >>>+/* > >>>+ * ATTRI/ATTRD log format definitions > >>>+ */ > >>>+struct xfs_attr { > >>>+ xfs_ino_t attr_ino; > >>>+ uint32_t attr_op_flags; > >>>+ uint32_t attr_nameval_len; > >>>+ uint32_t attr_name_len; > >>>+ uint32_t attr_flags; > >>>+ uint8_t attr_nameval[MAX_NAMEVAL_LEN]; > >>>+}; > >> > >>"struct xfs_attr" is very generic. This ends up in the log on disk, > >>right? So it's a log format structure? struct xfs_attr_log_format? > >> > >>This also needs padding to ensure it's size is 64bit aligned. > >> > Hmm, if this structure is meant to be stored on disk, is it really a > good idea to put pointers in here as you mentioned in your > conclusion below? If we get remounted or rebooted and loose the > pointer that may not work. Or am I not understanding what you > meant? The log format structure on disk needs to be encoded correctly - it will contain data, not pointers. The in-memory log item will contain the pointers to the xattr name/value buffers. i.e. struct xfs_attr_log_item { struct xfs_log_item item; .... int namelen; void *name_buf; int valuelen; void *value_buf; struct xfs_attr_log_format alf; }; And the log format structure looks like: struct xfs_attr_log_format { be64 ino; be32 gen; be32 intent_id; be32 op_flags; be32 attr_flags; be32 namelen; be32 valuelen; /* name gets copied here into first trailing log iovec */ /* value gets copied here into second trailing log iovec */ }; note that the intent id is used by recovery to make the intent item to the done item - that's probably what the "id" variable in the original structure you had was supposed to be used for. :P So essentially the ->item_size code does: /* log format header */ nvecs++; nbytes += sizeof(struct xfs_attr_log_format); if (opflags == remove || opflags == flipflags) return; /* add/set */ nvecs += 2; nbytes += namelen; nbytes += valuelen; return; And the ->item_format code does something like: xlog_copy_iovec(lv, &vecp, XLOG_REG_TYPE_ATTR_FORMAT, &alip->alf, sizeof(struct xfs_attr_log_format)); if (opflags == remove || opflags == flipflags) return; xlog_copy_iovec(lv, &vecp, XLOG_REG_TYPE_ATTR_NAME, alip->name_buf, alip->namelen); xlog_copy_iovec(lv, &vecp, XLOG_REG_TYPE_ATTR_VALUE, alip->value_buf, alip->valuelen); Make a bit more sense now? I suspect taht because we won't ever relog a "set" intent, we can clear the name_buf/value_buf pointers from the log item once we've copied them into the log vector. That means we can use pointers to the buffers containing the name and value already allocated in the attr code and so won't need to allocate another set of buffers just for the log item. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html