GFS2: Allocate block for xattr at inode alloc time, if required

This is another step towards improving the allocation of xattr
blocks at inode allocation time. Here we take advantage of
Christoph's recent work on ACLs to allocate a block for the
xattrs early if we know that we will be adding ACLs to the
inode later on. The advantage of that is that it is much
more likely that we'll get a contiguous run of two blocks
where the first is the inode and the second is the xattr block.

We still have to fall back to the original system in case we
don't get the requested two contiguous blocks, or in case the
ACLs are too large to fit into the block.

Future patches will move more of the ACL setting code further
up the gfs2_inode_create() function. Also, I'd like to be
able to do the same thing with the xattrs from LSMs in
due course, too. That way we should be able to slowly reduce
the number of independent transactions, at least in the
most common cases.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/gfs2_ondisk.h b/include/uapi/linux/gfs2_ondisk.h
index 0f24c07aed51..310020816809 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/gfs2_ondisk.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/gfs2_ondisk.h
@@ -347,9 +347,9 @@ struct gfs2_leaf {
  * metadata header. Each inode, if it has extended attributes, will
  * have either a single block containing the extended attribute headers
  * or a single indirect block pointing to blocks containing the
- * extended attribure headers.
+ * extended attribute headers.
  *
- * The maximim size of the data part of an extended attribute is 64k
+ * The maximum size of the data part of an extended attribute is 64k
  * so the number of blocks required depends upon block size. Since the
  * block size also determines the number of pointers in an indirect
  * block, its a fairly complicated calculation to work out the maximum