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authorMark Fasheh2010-08-13 15:15:17 -0700
committerTao Ma2010-09-08 14:25:59 +0800
commite49e27674d1dd2717ad90b21ece8f83102153315 (patch)
tree3ef61e9e4273a236dde61af12cb1e43d8c421c21 /kernel
parentd51349829c378c06ba4aa7d4b16ca23739858608 (diff)
ocfs2: allow return of new inode block location before allocation of the inode
This allows code which needs to know the eventual block number of an inode but can't allocate it yet due to transaction or lock ordering. For example, ocfs2_create_inode_in_orphan() currently gives a junk blkno for preparation of the orphan dir because it can't yet know where the actual inode is placed - that code is actually in ocfs2_mknod_locked. This is a problem when the orphan dirs are indexed as the junk inode number will create an index entry which goes unused (and fails the later removal from the orphan dir). Now with these interfaces, ocfs2_create_inode_in_orphan() can run the block group search (and get back the inode block number) *before* any actual allocation occurs. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>
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