From: Jan Kara Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 03:43:04 +0000 (-0500) Subject: ext4: shortcut setting of xattr to the same value X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3fd164629d25b04f291a79a013dcc7ce1a301269;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git ext4: shortcut setting of xattr to the same value When someone tried to set xattr to the same value (i.e., not changing anything) we did all the work of removing original xattr, possibly breaking references to shared xattr block, inserting new xattr, and merging xattr blocks again. Since this is not so rare operation and it is relatively cheap for us to detect this case, check for this and shortcut xattr setting in that case. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o --- diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c index c6af8a7a436a..b661ae8332e3 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c @@ -1096,6 +1096,17 @@ static int ext4_xattr_ibody_set(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, return 0; } +static int ext4_xattr_value_same(struct ext4_xattr_search *s, + struct ext4_xattr_info *i) +{ + void *value; + + if (le32_to_cpu(s->here->e_value_size) != i->value_len) + return 0; + value = ((void *)s->base) + le16_to_cpu(s->here->e_value_offs); + return !memcmp(value, i->value, i->value_len); +} + /* * ext4_xattr_set_handle() * @@ -1172,6 +1183,13 @@ ext4_xattr_set_handle(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, int name_index, else if (!bs.s.not_found) error = ext4_xattr_block_set(handle, inode, &i, &bs); } else { + error = 0; + /* Xattr value did not change? Save us some work and bail out */ + if (!is.s.not_found && ext4_xattr_value_same(&is.s, &i)) + goto cleanup; + if (!bs.s.not_found && ext4_xattr_value_same(&bs.s, &i)) + goto cleanup; + error = ext4_xattr_ibody_set(handle, inode, &i, &is); if (!error && !bs.s.not_found) { i.value = NULL;