Messages in this thread | | | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: Linux 5.16-rc1 | Date | Thu, 18 Nov 2021 01:26:44 +0000 |
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Hi Linus,
> On 18 Nov 2021, at 00:28, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 3:29 PM Anton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com> wrote: >> >> What we need here is an array to store pointers to in-memory inodes that correspond to inodes in the inode table page being written out. > > Do we actually need the array? > > The ntfs_inode pointers in that array are always locked (using > 'mrec_lock'), so ti could be just a linked list of entries. > > Yeah, that would require adding a 'next' pointer to 'struct > _ntfs_inode', but maybe that would be the right thing to do? > > I don't know the code, but it looks to me like it's literally just a > stack of locked ntfs_inode pointers - where the lock is taken before > adding it to the stack, and released after taking it off the stack. So > a singly-linked list would seem to be a very simple implementation.
Thanks for the idea. Yes, you are correct. That would be a viable alternative at the cost of that extra pointer in the ntfs_inode structure.
I am concerned that whilst this would fix this compiler warning, we have other such arrays in fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and ntfs_sync_mft_mirror() where in each of those functions we have:
struct buffer_head *bhs[MAX_BHS];
And at the top of mft.c we have:
#define MAX_BHS (PAGE_SIZE / NTFS_BLOCK_SIZE)
So those arrays are each the same size as the one the compiler warns about in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() where we have:
ntfs_inode *locked_nis[PAGE_SIZE / NTFS_BLOCK_SIZE];
So is it worth doing the singly linked list to fix one file only to have compilation fail a few files later when it gets to mft.c?
Best regards,
Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <anton at tuxera.com> (replace at with @) Lead in File System Development, Tuxera Inc., http://www.tuxera.com/ Linux NTFS maintainer
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