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Linux: s_op: use .free_inode #16788

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#16608

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as per Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst:

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**strongly recommended**

take the RCU-delayed parts of ->destroy_inode() into a new method - ->free_inode().  If ->destroy_inode() becomes empty - all the better, just get rid of it.

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as per Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst:

quote:

**strongly recommended**

take the RCU-delayed parts of ->destroy_inode() into a new method -
->free_inode().  If ->destroy_inode() becomes empty - all the better,
just get rid of it.

endquote.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Snajdr <[email protected]>
@snajpa snajpa force-pushed the fix-lowmem-free-inode branch from f1dfc9d to 1c6da1a Compare November 21, 2024 16:11
.destroy_inode = zpl_inode_destroy,
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I believe we still want to register .destroy_inode even when .free_inode is available. It's just that the RCU-delayed parts have been moved in to .free_inode.

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Well I tried to adhere to the note in porting.rst to the fullest extent possible, as it doesn't even say that .free_inode is now required if one doesn't want to run into unexplainable behavior (perhaps only with some kernel releases along the way to full folio conversion); I was wondering what more in terms of problems can we expect if I try to go against that note, in a sense of leaving .destroy_inode as it was.

Do you see any consequences of merging destroy_inode into evict_inode from the ZFS point of view? I couldn't think of anything so that's why I decided to do away with destroy_inode by merging it, just an abundance of caution, aka "what else aren't they telling me in the note, when they didn't even say it's mandatory but just recommended"

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I mean, if the inode gets as far as evict_inode being called on it, it's already done and zfs_zget is going to keep looping until it disappears completely, isn't it so?

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@behlendorf ping, what do you think, do we keep it as I propose? I'd like to push this forward but this seems like it needs further input from you :) Thanks!

zfs_inode_free(ip);
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__maybe_unused shouldn't be needed here or above. We can use the guard macro's here to build the required functions, or not.

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