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authorJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>2008-11-13 14:49:19 -0800
committerMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>2009-01-05 08:36:53 -0800
commit970e4936d7d15f35d00fd15a14f5343ba78b2fc8 (patch)
tree92057c7deab6b9d8e5c3889d6a354b5989a3b68d /fs/ocfs2/suballoc.h
parent4ae1d69bedc8d174cb8a558694607e013157cde1 (diff)
downloadlinux-970e4936d7d15f35d00fd15a14f5343ba78b2fc8.tar.bz2
ocfs2: Validate metadata only when it's read from disk.
Add an optional validation hook to ocfs2_read_blocks(). Now the validation function is only called when a block was actually read off of disk. It is not called when the buffer was in cache. We add a buffer state bit BH_NeedsValidate to flag these buffers. It must always be one higher than the last JBD2 buffer state bit. The dinode, dirblock, extent_block, and xattr_block validators are lifted to this scheme directly. The group_descriptor validator needs to be split into two pieces. The first part only needs the gd buffer and is passed to ocfs2_read_block(). The second part requires the dinode as well, and is called every time. It's only 3 compares, so it's tiny. This also allows us to clean up the non-fatal gd check used by resize.c. It now has no magic argument. Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ocfs2/suballoc.h')
-rw-r--r--fs/ocfs2/suballoc.h15
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/suballoc.h b/fs/ocfs2/suballoc.h
index 43de4fd826d3..e3c13c77f9e8 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/suballoc.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/suballoc.h
@@ -165,16 +165,15 @@ void ocfs2_free_ac_resource(struct ocfs2_alloc_context *ac);
u64 ocfs2_which_cluster_group(struct inode *inode, u32 cluster);
/*
- * By default, ocfs2_validate_group_descriptor() calls ocfs2_error() when it
+ * By default, ocfs2_read_group_descriptor() calls ocfs2_error() when it
* finds a problem. A caller that wants to check a group descriptor
- * without going readonly passes a nonzero clean_error. This is only
- * resize, really. Everyone else should be using
- * ocfs2_read_group_descriptor().
+ * without going readonly should read the block with ocfs2_read_block[s]()
+ * and then checking it with this function. This is only resize, really.
+ * Everyone else should be using ocfs2_read_group_descriptor().
*/
-int ocfs2_validate_group_descriptor(struct super_block *sb,
- struct ocfs2_dinode *di,
- struct buffer_head *bh,
- int clean_error);
+int ocfs2_check_group_descriptor(struct super_block *sb,
+ struct ocfs2_dinode *di,
+ struct buffer_head *bh);
/*
* Read a group descriptor block into *bh. If *bh is NULL, a bh will be
* allocated. This is a cached read. The descriptor will be validated with