inotify: remove debug code Bug: #104837
 

The inotify debugging code is supposed to verify that the
DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED scalability optimisation does not result in
notifications getting lost nor extra needless locking generated.

Unfortunately there are also some races in the debugging code. And it isn't
very good at finding problems anyway. So remove it for now.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
---
fs/dcache.c | 3 ---
fs/inotify.c | 17 +++++------------
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 6fc454e..7c718f9 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1408,9 +1408,6 @@ void d_delete(struct dentry * dentry)
if (atomic_read(&dentry->d_count) == 1) {
dentry_iput(dentry);
fsnotify_nameremove(dentry, isdir);
-
- /* remove this and other inotify debug checks after 2.6.18 */
- dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED;
return;
}

diff --git a/fs/inotify.c b/fs/inotify.c
index b2b109b..690e725 100644
--- a/fs/inotify.c
+++ b/fs/inotify.c
@@ -168,20 +168,14 @@ static void set_dentry_child_flags(struct inode *inode, int watched)
struct dentry *child;

list_for_each_entry(child, &alias->d_subdirs, d_u.d_child) {
- if (!child->d_inode) {
- WARN_ON(child->d_flags & DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED);
+ if (!child->d_inode)
continue;
- }
+
spin_lock(&child->d_lock);
- if (watched) {
- WARN_ON(child->d_flags &
- DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED);
+ if (watched)
child->d_flags |= DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED;
- } else {
- WARN_ON(!(child->d_flags &
- DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED));
- child->d_flags&=~DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED;
- }
+ else
+ child->d_flags &=~DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED;
spin_unlock(&child->d_lock);
}
}
@@ -253,7 +247,6 @@ void inotify_d_instantiate(struct dentry *entry, struct inode *inode)
if (!inode)
return;

- WARN_ON(entry->d_flags & DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED);
spin_lock(&entry->d_lock);
parent = entry->d_parent;
if (parent->d_inode && inotify_inode_watched(parent->d_inode))
--
1.5.4.3


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