Hi folks, This series reworks how the kernel code handles feature bits. It seemed to me to be a bit crazy to repeatedly have to check multiple values in the superblock to check whether a feature is supported. e.g. to check if reflink is available, we first mask the version number to extract it from the superblock field, then we check it against the v5 value, then we load and check the feature bit from the superblock. This could all just be a single flag check - a flag that is set at mount time after doing all of the above, and so it's just a single operation to check. I'm also tired of typing "xfs_sb_version_hasfoo" everytime a check needs to be done. Not to mention having a different mechanism to check mount option based features. And then there's the conflation of mount option feature flags and runtime state in the one set of flags. The flags field is not updated atomically, so there no guarantee that a change of a state flag does race with anything else and we lose it. So this patch set moves all the feature flags into a new m_features field in the struct xfs_mount. It doesn't matter if they are mount options or superblock feature bits - they all end up in the one place whether they are [almost entirely] read only. These are now checked by "xfs_has_foo(mp)" functions (following the ext4 feature check syntax), and for the very few features that can be dynamically added or removed there are also xfs_feat_add/remove_foo(mp) helpers. IOWs, both superblock and mount option features are checked the same way. The state flags (clean mount, unmounting, shutdown, etc) are all moved to a new m_state field, which is manipulated entirely by atomic bitops to avoid update races. THere are a couple of wrappers for the common checks - xfs_is_read_only(mp) and xfs_is_shut_down(mp). The latter replaces the XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN() macro. There's a bit of extra work around the attr2 feature bit - we've got the superblock bit, and then "attr2" and "noattr2" mount options and somewhat convoluted interactions. This patchset changes the behaviour of all these now - the attr2 bit on disk and mount option now mean the same thing, and noattr2 will turn off the superblock bit if it is set and prevent attr2 inodes from being created. This simplifies the mount time checking and clearing of these features. Also, it gives us a clean separation of "inode32 mount option" and "inode32 allocation is active". The former is a feature bit (i.e. SMALL_INUMS), and the latter is a state bit (32BITINODES) that is set if the filesystem size requires the allocator to limit allocation to 32 bit inode space. This also allows us to get rid of all the xfs_sb_version_hasfoo() inline functions. THere is a single function to populate m_features from the superblock bits, and the low level checks that are purely superblock based (i.e. on disk conversion and verifiers) directly check the superblock fields rather than use wrappers. Overall, this doesn't change the amount of code. If does reduce the built binary size by about 3.2kB, mainly through replacing the xfs_sb_version...() checks with a single m_features flag check. It makes the code a bit simpler, easier to read, and less shouty and separates runtime state from filesystem features. -Dave.
