How to safely access inode/dentry obtained from struct page *?
Joshi
joshiiitr at gmail.com
Sat Aug 30 01:11:16 EDT 2014
I am trying to obtain file name at block layer level (above IO scheduler).
At this level I receive bio structure, within which page pointers are kept.
Thereby I do following to obtain the inode and dentry -
struct inode *inode_ptr = page->mapping->host;
if (inode_ptr != NULL)
/* Access dentry i.e. i_dentry in the inode */
This works usually. But problem is, inode and dentry may get released
from inode and dentry cache at any time.
While accessing inode/dentry I need to ensure that till the time I am
accessing'em these structure remain valid in memory.
Is it possible to ensure that? Which structures/locks I need to check
for the purpose.
Appreciate any help.
Thanks!
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Joshi
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