[patch] remove buffer_head.b_inode

Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Wed, 24 Apr 2002 01:52:59 -0700


Removal of buffer_head.b_inode. The list_emptiness of b_inode_buffers
is used to indicate whether the buffer is on an inode's
i_dirty_buffers.

=====================================

--- 2.5.9/fs/buffer.c~cleanup-030-b_inode Wed Apr 24 01:06:12 2002
+++ 2.5.9-akpm/fs/buffer.c Wed Apr 24 01:44:59 2002
@@ -416,9 +416,7 @@ void buffer_insert_list(spinlock_t *lock
if (lock == NULL)
lock = &global_bufferlist_lock;
spin_lock(lock);
- if (bh->b_inode)
- list_del(&bh->b_inode_buffers);
- bh->b_inode = 1;
+ list_del(&bh->b_inode_buffers);
list_add(&bh->b_inode_buffers, list);
spin_unlock(lock);
}
@@ -428,10 +426,7 @@ void buffer_insert_list(spinlock_t *lock
*/
static inline void __remove_inode_queue(struct buffer_head *bh)
{
- if (bh->b_inode) {
- list_del(&bh->b_inode_buffers);
- bh->b_inode = 0;
- }
+ list_del_init(&bh->b_inode_buffers);
}

int inode_has_buffers(struct inode *inode)
@@ -656,11 +651,8 @@ int fsync_buffers_list(spinlock_t *lock,
spin_lock(lock);
while (!list_empty(list)) {
bh = BH_ENTRY(list->next);
- list_del(&bh->b_inode_buffers);
- if (!buffer_dirty(bh) && !buffer_locked(bh))
- bh->b_inode = 0;
- else {
- bh->b_inode = 1;
+ list_del_init(&bh->b_inode_buffers);
+ if (buffer_dirty(bh) || buffer_locked(bh)) {
list_add(&bh->b_inode_buffers, &tmp);
if (buffer_dirty(bh)) {
get_bh(bh);
@@ -2237,8 +2229,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_buffer_head);

void free_buffer_head(struct buffer_head *bh)
{
- if (bh->b_inode)
- BUG();
+ BUG_ON(!list_empty(&bh->b_inode_buffers));
mempool_free(bh, bh_mempool);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_buffer_head);
@@ -2253,6 +2244,7 @@ static void init_buffer_head(void *data,
bh->b_dev = B_FREE;
bh->b_bdev = NULL;
bh->b_blocknr = -1;
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bh->b_inode_buffers);
init_waitqueue_head(&bh->b_wait);
}
}
--- 2.5.9/include/linux/fs.h~cleanup-030-b_inode Wed Apr 24 01:06:12 2002
+++ 2.5.9-akpm/include/linux/fs.h Wed Apr 24 01:44:59 2002
@@ -257,7 +257,6 @@ struct buffer_head {

wait_queue_head_t b_wait;

- int b_inode; /* will go away */
struct list_head b_inode_buffers; /* doubly linked list of inode dirty buffers */
};
-
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