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Now that we have a clean operation to update the di_next_unlinked field of inode cluster buffers, we can easily defer this operation to transaction commit time so we can order the inode cluster buffer locking consistently. To do this, we introduce a new in-memory log item to track the unlinked list item modification that we are going to make. This follows the same observations as the in-memory double linked list used to track unlinked inodes in that the inodes on the list are pinned in memory and cannot go away, and hence we can simply reference them for the duration of the transaction without needing to take active references or pin them or look them up. This allows us to pass the xfs_inode to the transaction commit code along with the modification to be made, and then order the logged modifications via the ->iop_sort and ->iop_precommit operations for the new log item type. As this is an in-memory log item, it doesn't have formatting, CIL or AIL operational hooks - it exists purely to run the inode unlink modifications and is then removed from the transaction item list and freed once the precommit operation has run. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Linux kernel
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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.