On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:32:57AM +1000, Timothy Shimmin wrote:
> Hmm...confusing re NO_BLOCK.
>
> 1 linux-2.6/xfs_vnode.h <global> 228 #define ATTR_NONBLOCK 0x100
> 2 linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c xfs_ioc_space 686 attr_flags |= ATTR_NONBLOCK;
> 3 linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c xfs_ioc_fssetxattr 899 attr_flags |= ATTR_NONBLOCK;
> 4 linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c xfs_ioc_setxflags 951 attr_flags |= ATTR_NONBLOCK;
> 5 linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c xfs_vn_setattr 703 flags |= ATTR_NONBLOCK;
>
> 1 xfs/xfs_dmapi.h <global> 169 #define AT_DELAY_FLAG(f)
> ((f&ATTR_NONBLOCK) ? DM_FLAGS_NDELAY : 0)
> 2 xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c xfs_setattr 200 int dmflags =
> AT_DELAY_FLAG(flags) | DM_SEM_FLAG_WR;
> 3 xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c xfs_setattr 757 0, 0, AT_DELAY_FLAG(flags));
> 4 xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c xfs_free_file_space 3536 AT_DELAY_FLAG(attr_flags),
> NULL);
>
> So it's just used for dmapi stuff as it only looks like it is tested by
> AT_DELAY_FLAG().
> So for xfs_setattr it will be expecting it coming in as flags param
> and then testing it via AT_DELAY_FLAG.
> Hmmm...doesn't seem so good. So looks like it was handled by
> xfs_setattr and still is.
> So are we going to be doing the right thing now?
> If it could just never be set then what is the point of using
> AT_DELAY_FLAG() in xfs_setattr?
We scan till set XFS_ATTR_NONBLOCK, just not coming from xfs_vn_setattr.
Currently that's only done in xfs_ioc_space.
>
>
> >> So we get rid of the test for XFS_AT_NOSET.
> >> where:
> >> #define XFS_AT_NOSET
> >> (XFS_AT_NLINK|XFS_AT_RDEV|XFS_AT_FSID|XFS_AT_NODEID|\
> >> XFS_AT_TYPE|XFS_AT_BLKSIZE|XFS_AT_NBLOCKS|XFS_AT_VCODE|\
> >> XFS_AT_NEXTENTS|XFS_AT_ANEXTENTS|XFS_AT_GENCOUNT)
> >>
> >> I can't see anywhere we set any of these.
> >> Presumably out of the xattr calls.
> >> Some left over from IRIX I guess.
> >
> > Probably. Note that linux uses the ATTR_ flags only for ->setattr so
> > there are per defintion none that can't be set.
> >
> Which is nice.
>
> >> #define XFS_AT_UPDATIME 0x00010000
> >> #define XFS_AT_UPDMTIME 0x00020000
> >> #define XFS_AT_UPDCTIME 0x00040000
> >> 3 more not supported by vfs ATTR_* macros.
> >> I can't see where we set any of these.
> >> So no loss there I guess.
> >> Presumably they were just for IRIX.
> >
> > It's an IRIX leftover. I will submit a patch to introduce something
> > similar to Linux for 2.6.27, that's why I'd like these patches in for
> > 2.6.26 so that I have a clean base to start from.
> Ok.
>
> --Tim
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