xfs: more sensible inode refcounting for ialloc

Currently we return iodes from xfs_ialloc with just a single reference held.
But we need two references, as one is dropped during transaction commit and
the second needs to be transfered to the VFS.  Change xfs_ialloc to use
xfs_iget plus xfs_trans_ijoin_ref to grab two references to the inode,
and remove the now superflous IHOLD calls from all callers.  This also
greatly simplifies the error handling in xfs_create and also allow to remove
xfs_trans_iget as no other callers are left.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 45 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c
index d8e6f8c..258d4f9 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c
@@ -1310,7 +1310,7 @@ xfs_create(
 	error = xfs_qm_vop_dqalloc(dp, current_fsuid(), current_fsgid(), prid,
 			XFS_QMOPT_QUOTALL | XFS_QMOPT_INHERIT, &udqp, &gdqp);
 	if (error)
-		goto std_return;
+		return error;
 
 	if (is_dir) {
 		rdev = 0;
@@ -1390,12 +1390,6 @@ xfs_create(
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * At this point, we've gotten a newly allocated inode.
-	 * It is locked (and joined to the transaction).
-	 */
-	ASSERT(xfs_isilocked(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL));
-
-	/*
 	 * Now we join the directory inode to the transaction.  We do not do it
 	 * earlier because xfs_dir_ialloc might commit the previous transaction
 	 * (and release all the locks).  An error from here on will result in
@@ -1440,22 +1434,13 @@ xfs_create(
 	 */
 	xfs_qm_vop_create_dqattach(tp, ip, udqp, gdqp);
 
-	/*
-	 * xfs_trans_commit normally decrements the vnode ref count
-	 * when it unlocks the inode. Since we want to return the
-	 * vnode to the caller, we bump the vnode ref count now.
-	 */
-	IHOLD(ip);
-
 	error = xfs_bmap_finish(&tp, &free_list, &committed);
 	if (error)
-		goto out_abort_rele;
+		goto out_bmap_cancel;
 
 	error = xfs_trans_commit(tp, XFS_TRANS_RELEASE_LOG_RES);
-	if (error) {
-		IRELE(ip);
-		goto out_dqrele;
-	}
+	if (error)
+		goto out_release_inode;
 
 	xfs_qm_dqrele(udqp);
 	xfs_qm_dqrele(gdqp);
@@ -1469,27 +1454,21 @@ xfs_create(
 	cancel_flags |= XFS_TRANS_ABORT;
  out_trans_cancel:
 	xfs_trans_cancel(tp, cancel_flags);
- out_dqrele:
+ out_release_inode:
+	/*
+	 * Wait until after the current transaction is aborted to
+	 * release the inode.  This prevents recursive transactions
+	 * and deadlocks from xfs_inactive.
+	 */
+	if (ip)
+		IRELE(ip);
+
 	xfs_qm_dqrele(udqp);
 	xfs_qm_dqrele(gdqp);
 
 	if (unlock_dp_on_error)
 		xfs_iunlock(dp, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
- std_return:
 	return error;
-
- out_abort_rele:
-	/*
-	 * Wait until after the current transaction is aborted to
-	 * release the inode.  This prevents recursive transactions
-	 * and deadlocks from xfs_inactive.
-	 */
-	xfs_bmap_cancel(&free_list);
-	cancel_flags |= XFS_TRANS_ABORT;
-	xfs_trans_cancel(tp, cancel_flags);
-	IRELE(ip);
-	unlock_dp_on_error = B_FALSE;
-	goto out_dqrele;
 }
 
 #ifdef DEBUG
@@ -2114,9 +2093,8 @@ xfs_symlink(
 				  XFS_BMAPI_WRITE | XFS_BMAPI_METADATA,
 				  &first_block, resblks, mval, &nmaps,
 				  &free_list);
-		if (error) {
-			goto error1;
-		}
+		if (error)
+			goto error2;
 
 		if (resblks)
 			resblks -= fs_blocks;
@@ -2148,7 +2126,7 @@ xfs_symlink(
 	error = xfs_dir_createname(tp, dp, link_name, ip->i_ino,
 					&first_block, &free_list, resblks);
 	if (error)
-		goto error1;
+		goto error2;
 	xfs_trans_ichgtime(tp, dp, XFS_ICHGTIME_MOD | XFS_ICHGTIME_CHG);
 	xfs_trans_log_inode(tp, dp, XFS_ILOG_CORE);
 
@@ -2161,13 +2139,6 @@ xfs_symlink(
 		xfs_trans_set_sync(tp);
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * xfs_trans_commit normally decrements the vnode ref count
-	 * when it unlocks the inode. Since we want to return the
-	 * vnode to the caller, we bump the vnode ref count now.
-	 */
-	IHOLD(ip);
-
 	error = xfs_bmap_finish(&tp, &free_list, &committed);
 	if (error) {
 		goto error2;