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Now we have forwards traversal via the incore inode in place, we now need to add back pointers to the incore inode to entirely replace the back reference cache. We use the same lookup semantics and constraints as for the forwards pointer lookups during unlinks, and so we can look up any inode in the unlinked list directly and update the list pointers, forwards or backwards, at any time. The only wrinkle in converting the unlinked list manipulations to use in-core previous pointers is that log recovery doesn't have the incore inode state built up so it can't just read in an inode and release it to finish off the unlink. Hence we need to modify the traversal in recovery to read one inode ahead before we release the inode at the head of the list. This populates the next->prev relationship sufficient to be able to replay the unlinked list and hence greatly simplify the runtime code. This recovery algorithm also requires that we actually remove inodes from the unlinked list one at a time as background inode inactivation will result in unlinked list removal racing with the building of the in-memory unlinked list state. We could serialise this by holding the AGI buffer lock when constructing the in memory state, but all that does is lockstep background processing with list building. It is much simpler to flush the inodegc immediately after releasing the inode so that it is unlinked immediately and there is no races present at all. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.