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 <dhowe...@redhat.com>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: 
https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819630256.215744.4815885535039369574.st...@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
 # v1
Link: 
https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819642273.215744.6414248677118690672.st...@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
 # v1
Link: 
https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906931596.143852.8642051223094013028.st...@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
 # v2
Link: 
https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906943215.143852.16972351425323967014.st...@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
 # v2
---

 fs/cachefiles/internal.h |    2 ++
 fs/cachefiles/namei.c    |   35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
index 01071e7a7c02..7c67a70a3dff 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
@@ -187,6 +187,8 @@ extern struct kmem_cache *cachefiles_object_jar;
 /*
  * namei.c
  */
+extern void cachefiles_unmark_inode_in_use(struct cachefiles_object *object,
+                                          struct file *file);
 extern struct dentry *cachefiles_get_directory(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
                                               struct dentry *dir,
                                               const char *name,
diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
index 11a33209ab5f..db60a671c3fc 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
@@ -31,6 +31,18 @@ static bool __cachefiles_mark_inode_in_use(struct 
cachefiles_object *object,
        return can_use;
 }
 
+static bool cachefiles_mark_inode_in_use(struct cachefiles_object *object,
+                                        struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+       struct inode *inode = d_backing_inode(dentry);
+       bool can_use;
+
+       inode_lock(inode);
+       can_use = __cachefiles_mark_inode_in_use(object, dentry);
+       inode_unlock(inode);
+       return can_use;
+}
+
 /*
  * Unmark a backing inode.  The caller must hold the inode lock.
  */
@@ -43,6 +55,29 @@ static void __cachefiles_unmark_inode_in_use(struct 
cachefiles_object *object,
        trace_cachefiles_mark_inactive(object, inode);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Unmark a backing inode and tell cachefilesd that there's something that can
+ * be culled.
+ */
+void cachefiles_unmark_inode_in_use(struct cachefiles_object *object,
+                                   struct file *file)
+{
+       struct cachefiles_cache *cache = object->volume->cache;
+       struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
+
+       if (inode) {
+               inode_lock(inode);
+               __cachefiles_unmark_inode_in_use(object, file->f_path.dentry);
+               inode_unlock(inode);
+
+               if (!test_bit(CACHEFILES_OBJECT_USING_TMPFILE, &object->flags)) 
{
+                       atomic_long_add(inode->i_blocks, &cache->b_released);
+                       if (atomic_inc_return(&cache->f_released))
+                               cachefiles_state_changed(cache);
+               }
+       }
+}
+
 /*
  * get a subdirectory
  */


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