cachefiles: Mark a backing file in use with an inode flag
authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 08:58:08 +0000 (08:58 +0000)
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Fri, 7 Jan 2022 13:42:29 +0000 (13:42 +0000)
commit169379eaef933ca98c279257cacb313a02f9984d
treef6f4ebe27265f948217b25a3adde5685f90d4806
parent72b957856b0c09eee542afcff29705dd0adda654
cachefiles: Mark a backing file in use with an inode flag

Use an inode flag, S_KERNEL_FILE, to mark that a backing file is in use by
the kernel to prevent cachefiles or other kernel services from interfering
with that file.

Using S_SWAPFILE instead isn't really viable as that has other effects in
the I/O paths.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819642273.215744.6414248677118690672.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906943215.143852.16972351425323967014.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967154118.1823006.13227551961786743991.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021541207.640689.564689725898537127.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021552299.640689.10578652796777392062.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
fs/cachefiles/internal.h
fs/cachefiles/namei.c