On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:34:59AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> > > XFS inodes has several per-lifetime state fields that determine the > behaviour of the inode. These state fields are not all reset when an > inode is reused from the reclaimable state. > > This can lead to unexpected behaviour of the new inode such as > speculative preallocation not being truncated away in the expected > manner for local files until the inode is subsequently truncated, > freed or cycles out of the cache. It can also lead to an inode being > considered to be a filestream inode or having been truncated when > that is not the case. > > Rework the reinitialisation of the inode when it is recycled to > ensure that it is pristine before it is reused. While there, also > fix the resetting of state flags in the recycling error paths so the > inode does not become unreclaimable. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c | 13 +++++++++---- > fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h | 10 ++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c > index cb9b6d1..3631783 100644 > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c > @@ -253,16 +253,21 @@ xfs_iget_cache_hit( > rcu_read_lock(); > spin_lock(&ip->i_flags_lock); > > - ip->i_flags &= ~XFS_INEW; > - ip->i_flags |= XFS_IRECLAIMABLE; > - __xfs_inode_set_reclaim_tag(pag, ip); > + ip->i_flags &= ~(XFS_INEW | XFS_IRECLAIM); > + ASSERT(ip->i_flags & XFS_IRECLAIMABLE); Looking over this again XFS_INEW can't be set here, as we return early a few lines above. Otherwise looks good, Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs