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Ext2FS: Don't uncache inodes while they are being watched

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If an inode is observed by watch_file(), we won't uncache it.
This allows a program to watch a file without keeping it open.
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Andreas Kling 2019-11-04 16:31:46 +01:00
parent 56bbf30f28
commit 721585473b
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Kernel/FileSystem/Ext2FileSystem.cpp
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@ -507,6 +507,8 @@ void Ext2FS::flush_writes()
DiskBackedFS::flush_writes();
// Uncache Inodes that are only kept alive by the index-to-inode lookup cache.
// We don't uncache Inodes that are being watched by at least one InodeWatcher.
// FIXME: It would be better to keep a capped number of Inodes around.
// The problem is that they are quite heavy objects, and use a lot of heap memory
// for their (child name lookup) and (block list) caches.
@ -514,6 +516,8 @@ void Ext2FS::flush_writes()
for (auto& it : m_inode_cache) {
if (it.value->ref_count() != 1)
continue;
if (it.value->has_watchers())
continue;
unused_inodes.append(it.key);
}
for (auto index : unused_inodes)