On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:51:10PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 12:52:15PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Sanitize setting up the Linux indode.
> >
> > Setting up the xfs_inode <-> inode link is opencoded in xfs_iget_core
> > now because that's the only place it needs to be done,
> > xfs_initialize_vnode is renamed to xfs_setup_inode and loses all
> > superflous paramaters. The check for I_NEW is removed because it always
> > is true and the di_mode check moves into xfs_iget_core because it's only
> > needed there.
> >
> > xfs_set_inodeops and xfs_revalidate_inode are merged into
> > xfs_setup_inode and the whole things is moved into xfs_iops.c where it
> > belongs.
>
> Rediffed to apply ontop of Dave's and my vnode helper cleanups:
Looks good and has been passing testing here for the past week...
One question, though:
> + }
> +
> + xfs_iflags_clear(ip, XFS_INEW);
> + barrier();
> +
> + unlock_new_inode(inode);
> +}
Do we still need that barrier()? Or has the reason for it
existing been lost in the mists of time? Regardless, it was
there before so this is not a reason to stop the patch from
going in...
Cheers,
Dave.
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