stop using igrab in xfs_vn_link
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Wed, 3 Dec 2008 11:20:27 +0000 (12:20 +0100)
committerNiv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
Thu, 4 Dec 2008 04:39:21 +0000 (15:39 +1100)
->link is guranteed to get an already reference inode passed so we
can do a simple increment of i_count instead of using igrab and thus
avoid banging on the global inode_lock.  This is what most filesystems
already do.

Also move the increment after the call to xfs_link to simplify error
handling.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c

index 2903faf..76b570d 100644 (file)
@@ -367,21 +367,18 @@ xfs_vn_link(
        struct inode    *dir,
        struct dentry   *dentry)
 {
-       struct inode    *inode; /* inode of guy being linked to */
+       struct inode    *inode = old_dentry->d_inode;
        struct xfs_name name;
        int             error;
 
-       inode = old_dentry->d_inode;
        xfs_dentry_to_name(&name, dentry);
 
-       igrab(inode);
        error = xfs_link(XFS_I(dir), XFS_I(inode), &name);
-       if (unlikely(error)) {
-               iput(inode);
+       if (unlikely(error))
                return -error;
-       }
 
        xfs_iflags_set(XFS_I(dir), XFS_IMODIFIED);
+       atomic_inc(&inode->i_count);
        d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
        return 0;
 }