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ext4: start handle at the last possible moment in ext4_rmdir()

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Don't start the jbd2 transaction handle until after the directory
entry has been found, to minimize the amount of time that a handle is
held active.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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Theodore Ts'o 2013-02-09 09:45:11 -05:00
parent 931b68649d
commit 8dcfaad244
1 changed files with 14 additions and 10 deletions
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fs/ext4/namei.c
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@ -2725,26 +2725,18 @@ static int ext4_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
struct inode *inode;
struct buffer_head *bh;
struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *de;
handle_t *handle;
handle_t *handle = NULL;
/* Initialize quotas before so that eventual writes go in
* separate transaction */
dquot_initialize(dir);
dquot_initialize(dentry->d_inode);
handle = ext4_journal_start(dir, EXT4_HT_DIR,
EXT4_DELETE_TRANS_BLOCKS(dir->i_sb));
if (IS_ERR(handle))
return PTR_ERR(handle);
retval = -ENOENT;
bh = ext4_find_entry(dir, &dentry->d_name, &de, NULL);
if (!bh)
goto end_rmdir;
if (IS_DIRSYNC(dir))
ext4_handle_sync(handle);
inode = dentry->d_inode;
retval = -EIO;
@ -2755,6 +2747,17 @@ static int ext4_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
if (!empty_dir(inode))
goto end_rmdir;
handle = ext4_journal_start(dir, EXT4_HT_DIR,
EXT4_DELETE_TRANS_BLOCKS(dir->i_sb));
if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
retval = PTR_ERR(handle);
handle = NULL;
goto end_rmdir;
}
if (IS_DIRSYNC(dir))
ext4_handle_sync(handle);
retval = ext4_delete_entry(handle, dir, de, bh);
if (retval)
goto end_rmdir;
@ -2776,8 +2779,9 @@ static int ext4_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, dir);
end_rmdir:
ext4_journal_stop(handle);
brelse(bh);
if (handle)
ext4_journal_stop(handle);
return retval;
}