节点地址的函数list_entry()原理详解

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发布时间：2019-06-20

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本节中，我们继续讲解，在linux2.4内核下，如果通过一些列函数从路径名找到目标节点。

3.3.1）接下来查看chached_lookup（）的代码（namei.c）

[path_walk()>> cached_lookup()]/**Internal lookup() using the new generic dcache.*SMP-safe*给定name和parent进行查找，如果找到而且合法，那么返回找到的dentry；否则，返回NULL*/staticstruct dentry * cached_lookup(struct dentry * parent, struct qstr *name, int flags){structdentry * dentry = d_lookup(parent, name);if(dentry && dentry->d_op &&dentry->d_op->d_revalidate) { //注意此处最后一项是判断函数指针非空if(!dentry->d_op->d_revalidate(dentry, flags) &&!d_invalidate(dentry)) { //此处是对dentry的有效性进行验证，对于NTFS非常重要dput(dentry);dentry= NULL;}}returndentry;}

该函数主要通过d_lookup(),代码在fs/dcache.c之中

[path_walk>> cached_lookup() >> d_lookup()]/***d_lookup - search for a dentry*@parent: parent dentry*@name: qstr of name we wish to find**Searches the children of the parent dentry for the name in question.If*the dentry is found its reference count is incremented and the dentry*is returned. The caller must use d_put to free the entry when it has*finished using it. %NULL is returned on failure.*这个是真正的查找函数，给定parent，查找这个parent对应的包含name的dentry目录下的子文件，如果成功，计数器加1并返回；否则，返回NULL指针。*/structdentry * d_lookup(struct dentry * parent, struct qstr * name){unsignedint len = name->len;unsignedint hash = name->hash;constunsigned char *str = name->name;structlist_head *head = d_hash(parent,hash);//进一步进行hash，返回hash以后对应的index,是int，这个的类型返回值岂不是不对应？structlist_head *tmp;spin_lock(&dcache_lock);tmp= head->next;//这个值的初值确定了吗？猜想应该是tmp=NULLfor(;;) {//由于hash冲突，找到位置以后，需要精确定位dentry所在地址structdentry * dentry = list_entry(tmp, struct dentry, d_hash);if(tmp == head)break;//双向循环链表，解决完毕tmp= tmp->next; //这是一个循环变量，用于改变tmp的值if(dentry->d_name.hash != hash)//d_name is the type of qstrcontinue;//checkthe hash value，不同名字hash到同一个地址if(dentry->d_parent != parent)continue;//checkthe parent value 不同文件夹具有同名的子文件，需要比较patrentif(parent->d_op && parent->d_op->d_compare) {//checkthe nameif(parent->d_op->d_compare(parent, &dentry->d_name, name))continue;}else {if(dentry->d_name.len != len)continue;if(memcmp(dentry->d_name.name, str, len))continue;}__dget_locked(dentry);dentry->d_vfs_flags|= DCACHE_REFERENCED;spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);returndentry;//find the dentry in mem}spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);returnNULL;//not find the dentry in mem}

首先，本来应该直接根据hash值进行相应的地址定位，但在这里我们选择进一步hash，函数如下

[path_walk()>> cashed_lookup() >> d_lookup() >> d_hash()]

//结合parent进行hash，返回hash以后对应的地址，而不是index。意义：根据父节点的地址进行进一步hash，增强hash值的特异性。

注意:此处的d_hash返回值不是int类型，不是index是地址！！！

staticinline struct list_head * d_hash(struct dentry * parent, unsignedlong hash){hash+= (unsigned long) parent / L1_CACHE_BYTES;hash= hash ^ (hash >> D_HASHBITS);return dentry_hashtable + (hash & D_HASHMASK);}

list_entry的相应代码如下：

141#define list_entry(ptr, type, member) \

142 ((type *)((char *)(ptr)-(unsigned long)(&((type*)0)->member)))

这是一个节点地址索引函数，比较难以理解，可以参考这里：

。

找到相应的队列头部以后，利用for循环来查找比较简单，唯一的特殊之处在于具体的文件系统可能通过其dentry_operation提供自己的节点名称对比函数，没有的话就用memcmp().

接下来继续看cached_lookup(),具体的文件系统通过其dentry_operations提供一个对找到的dentry进行验证和处理的函数，如果验证失败，就要通过d_invaliate()将这个数据结构从hash表中删除。原因：在NFS之中，如果一个远程进程是其唯一用户，而且很长时间没有访问它了，那么此时就需要通过访问磁盘上的父目录内容来进行重新构造。具体的函数有dentry_operations结构中通过函数指针d_revaliate提供，最后则根据验证的结果返回一个dentry指针或者出错代码。而很多文件系统，包括ext2，并不提供dentry_operations结构。至此，cached_lookup()就完成了。

3.3.2)接下来查看real_lookup()的代码：

[path_walk()>> real_lookup()]/**This is called when everything else fails, and we actually have*to go to the low-level filesystem to find out what we should do..**We get the directory semaphore, and after getting that we also*make sure that nobody added the entry to the dcache in the meantime..*SMP-safe*/staticstruct dentry * real_lookup(struct dentry * parent, struct qstr *name, int flags){//thefunction: given the parent and the name and the flags, then find thedentry ,add it to the mem of the queue and return it!!structdentry * result;structinode *dir = parent->d_inode;down(&dir->i_sem);//进入临界区,cannotbe interupted by other process/**First re-do the cached lookup just in case it was created*while we waited for the directory semaphore..**FIXME! This could use version numbering or similar to*avoid unnecessary cache lookups.*/result= d_lookup(parent, name);// maybe during the sleep, the dentry isbuilt by othersif(!result) {structdentry * dentry = d_alloc(parent, name);result= ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);if(dentry) {lock_kernel();result= dir->i_op->lookup(dir, dentry);//从磁盘上父节点的目录项中寻找相应目录项并且设置相关信息unlock_kernel();if(result)dput(dentry);//寻找失败，撤销已经分配的dentryelseresult= dentry;//寻找成功}up(&dir->i_sem);return result;//}/**Uhhuh! Nasty case: the cache was re-populated while* we waited on the semaphore. Need to revalidate.*/up(&dir->i_sem);if(result->d_op && result->d_op->d_revalidate) {if(!result->d_op->d_revalidate(result, flags) &&!d_invalidate(result)) {dput(result);result= ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);}}return result;}

说明：关于，互斥信号量的使用，可以参考：

I)其中，要建立一个dentry结果，首先要为之分配存储空间并初始化，这是d_alloc()完成的，代在dcache.c之中

#define NAME_ALLOC_LEN(len) ((len+16) & ~15)码/***d_alloc - allocate a dcache entry*@parent: parent of entry to allocate*@name: qstr of the name**Allocates a dentry. It returns %NULL if there is insufficient memory*available. On a success the dentry is returned. The name passed in is*copied and the copy passed in may be reused after this call.*/struct dentry * d_alloc(struct dentry * parent, const struct qstr *name){//alloc the room for the dentry_cache,init the dentry and return itchar* str;struct dentry *dentry;dentry= kmem_cache_alloc(dentry_cache,GFP_KERNEL);//从专用的slab分配器中分配的，关于内存分配，我们以后再进行解释if(!dentry)return NULL;if(name->len > DNAME_INLINE_LEN-1) {str= kmalloc(NAME_ALLOC_LEN(name->len), GFP_KERNEL);if(!str) {kmem_cache_free(dentry_cache,dentry);return NULL;}}elsestr= dentry->d_iname;//节点名很短，直接用d_iname保存memcpy(str,name->name, name->len);//d_name.name总是指向这个字符串str[name->len]= 0;//22 #define atomic_read(v) ((v)->counter)//23#define atomic_set(v,i) ((v)->counter = (i))atomic_set(&dentry->d_count,1);dentry->d_vfs_flags= 0;dentry->d_flags= 0;dentry->d_inode= NULL;dentry->d_parent= NULL;dentry->d_sb= NULL;dentry->d_name.name= str;dentry->d_name.len= name->len;dentry->d_name.hash= name->hash;dentry->d_op= NULL;dentry->d_fsdata= NULL;dentry->d_mounted= 0;INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dentry->d_hash);INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dentry->d_lru);INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dentry->d_subdirs);INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dentry->d_alias);if(parent) {dentry->d_parent= dget(parent);dentry->d_sb= parent->d_sb;//从父目录继承sbspin_lock(&dcache_lock);list_add(&dentry->d_child,&parent->d_subdirs);spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);}elseINIT_LIST_HEAD(&dentry->d_child);dentry_stat.nr_dentry++;return dentry;}

II)从磁盘上寻找文件系统，是通过i_op来中的相关结构来实现的，就ext2而言，对目录节点的函数跳转结构是ext2_dir_inode_operations,定义见fs/ext2/namei.c:ext2_lookup()

struct inode_operations ext2_dir_inode_operations = {

create: ext2_create,

lookup: ext2_lookup,

link: ext2_link,

unlink: ext2_unlink,

symlink: ext2_symlink,

mkdir: ext2_mkdir,

rmdir: ext2_rmdir,

mknod: ext2_mknod,

rename: ext2_rename,

};

具体的函数是ext2_lookup(),仍然在fs/ext2/namei.c

/**Methods themselves.*/[path_walk()>> real_lookup() >> ext2_lookup()]163static struct dentry *ext2_lookup(struct inode * dir, struct dentry*dentry)164{//从磁盘父节点的目录项中寻找相关的目录项，并设置相关信息165 struct inode * inode;166 struct ext2_dir_entry_2 * de;167 struct buffer_head * bh;168169 if (dentry->d_name.len > EXT2_NAME_LEN)170 return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);171172 bh = ext2_find_entry (dir, dentry->d_name.name,dentry->d_name.len, &de);173 inode = NULL;174 if (bh) {175 unsigned long ino = le32_to_cpu(de->inode);176 brelse (bh);177 inode = iget(dir->i_sb,ino);//根据索引节点号从磁盘读入相应索引节点并在内存中建立相对的inode结构178179 if (!inode)180 return ERR_PTR(-EACCES);181 }182 d_add(dentry, inode);//dentry结构的设置并挂入相应的某个队列183 return NULL;184}

[[path_walk()>> real_lookup() >> ext2_lookup() >> >>ext2_find_entry ]

//这一部分涉及文件读写和设备驱动，我们以后再分析

52/*

53 * ext2_find_entry()

54 *

55 * finds an entry in the specified directory with the wanted name. It

56 * returns the cache buffer in which the entry was found, and theentry

57 * itself (as a parameter - res_dir). It does NOT read the inode ofthe

58 * entry - you'll have to do that yourself if you want to.

59 */

60static struct buffer_head * ext2_find_entry (struct inode * dir,61 const char * const name,int namelen,62 struct ext2_dir_entry_2** res_dir)63{//在指定目录下，查找某一个指定name对应的目录项，返回这个dentry对应的cachebuffer ,但是并不读取这个dentry对应的inode64 struct super_block * sb;65 struct buffer_head * bh_use[NAMEI_RA_SIZE];66 struct buffer_head * bh_read[NAMEI_RA_SIZE];67 unsigned long offset;68 int block, toread, i, err;6970 *res_dir = NULL;71 sb = dir->i_sb;7273 if (namelen > EXT2_NAME_LEN)74 return NULL;7576 memset (bh_use, 0, sizeof (bh_use)); //关于指针大小于指向指针的指针77 toread = 0;78 for (block = 0; block < NAMEI_RA_SIZE; ++block) {79 struct buffer_head * bh;8081 if ((block << EXT2_BLOCK_SIZE_BITS (sb)) >=dir->i_size)82 break;83 bh = ext2_getblk (dir, block, 0, &err);84 bh_use[block] = bh;85 if (bh && !buffer_uptodate(bh))86 bh_read[toread++] = bh;87 }8889 for (block = 0, offset = 0; offset < dir->i_size;block++) {90 struct buffer_head * bh;91 struct ext2_dir_entry_2 * de;92 char * dlimit;9394 if ((block % NAMEI_RA_BLOCKS) == 0 && toread){95 ll_rw_block (READ, toread, bh_read);96 toread = 0;97 }98 bh = bh_use[block % NAMEI_RA_SIZE];99 if (!bh) {100#if 0101 ext2_error (sb, "ext2_find_entry",102 "directory #%lu contains ahole at offset %lu",103 dir->i_ino, offset);104#endif105 offset += sb->s_blocksize;106 continue;107 }108 wait_on_buffer (bh);109 if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) {110 /*111 * read error: all bets are off112 */113 break;114 }115116 de = (struct ext2_dir_entry_2 *) bh->b_data;117 dlimit = bh->b_data + sb->s_blocksize;118 while ((char *) de < dlimit) {119 /* this code is executed quadratically often*/120 /* do minimal checking `by hand' */121 int de_len;122123 if ((char *) de + namelen <= dlimit &&124 ext2_match (namelen, name, de)) {125 /* found a match -126 just to be sure, do a full check*/127 if(!ext2_check_dir_entry("ext2_find_entry",128 dir, de,bh, offset))129 goto failure;130 for (i = 0; i < NAMEI_RA_SIZE;++i) {131 if (bh_use[i] != bh)132 brelse (bh_use[i]);133 }134 *res_dir = de;135 return bh;136 }137 /* prevent looping on a bad block */138 de_len = le16_to_cpu(de->rec_len);139 if (de_len <= 0)140 goto failure;141 offset += de_len;142 de = (struct ext2_dir_entry_2 *)143 ((char *) de + de_len);144 }145146 brelse (bh);147 if (((block + NAMEI_RA_SIZE) <
    
     =148 dir->i_size)149 bh = NULL;150 else151 bh = ext2_getblk (dir, block + NAMEI_RA_SIZE,0, &err);152 bh_use[block % NAMEI_RA_SIZE] = bh;153 if (bh && !buffer_uptodate(bh))154 bh_read[toread++] = bh;155 }156157failure:158 for (i = 0; i < NAMEI_RA_SIZE; ++i)159 brelse (bh_use[i]);160 return NULL;161}

继续回到ext2_lookup()的代码，下一步是根据查的索引节点通过iget()找到对应的inode结构，这里的iget()是inline函数，定义在inlude/linux/fs.h

staticinline struct inode *iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)

{

return iget4(sb, ino, NULL, NULL);

}

继续追寻iget4（），在fs/inode.c:

962struct inode *iget4(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino,find_inode_t find_actor, void *opaque)963{//根据sb和索引节点号，返回inode结构；如果对应inode结构不存在内存中，就从磁盘上读取相关信息，然后在内存中建立对应的inode结构964 struct list_head * head = inode_hashtable +hash(sb,ino);//索引节点号在同一设备上才是唯一的，所以计算hash的时候，要加入superblock的地址965 struct inode * inode;966967 spin_lock(&inode_lock);968 inode = find_inode(sb, ino, head, find_actor,opaque);//在hash表中查找该inode是否在内存中969 if (inode) {970 __iget(inode);971 spin_unlock(&inode_lock);972 wait_on_inode(inode);973 return inode;974 }975 spin_unlock(&inode_lock);976977 /*978 * get_new_inode() will do the right thing, re-trying thesearch979 * in case it had to block at any point.980 */981 return get_new_inode(sb, ino, head, find_actor,opaque);//内存中找不到inode结构，需要从磁盘上读入982}983

inode也涉及内存缓存，inode结构有个hash表inode_hashtable，已经建立的inode结构需要通过inode结构中的i_hash（也是一个list_head）挂在hash表中的队列中，首先通过find_inode进行查找，找到以后通过iget进行递增共享计数。

下面看代码fs/inode.c:

[path_walk()>> real_lookup() >> ext2_lookup() >> iget() >>iget4() >> get_new_inode()]

649/*650 * This is called without the inode lock held.. Be careful.651 *652 * We no longer cache the sb_flags in i_flags - see fs.h653 * -- rmk@arm.uk.linux.org654 */655static struct inode * get_new_inode(struct super_block *sb, unsignedlong ino, struct list_head *head, fi nd_inode_t find_actor, void*opaque)656{//这段代码的理解可以参考前面dentry的空间分配和内存结构的建立，其中包含了初始化的部分657 struct inode * inode;658659 inode = alloc_inode();660 if (inode) {661 struct inode * old;662663 spin_lock(&inode_lock);664 /* We released the lock, so.. */665 old = find_inode(sb, ino, head, find_actor,opaque);//sb和ino结合起来，才能在全系统内定位一个索引节点666 if (!old) {667 inodes_stat.nr_inodes++;668 list_add(&inode->i_list,&inode_in_use);669 list_add(&inode->i_hash, head);670 inode->i_sb = sb;671 inode->i_dev = sb->s_dev;672 inode->i_ino = ino;673 inode->i_flags = 0;674 atomic_set(&inode->i_count, 1);675 inode->i_state = I_LOCK;676 spin_unlock(&inode_lock);677678 clean_inode(inode);679 sb->s_op->read_inode(inode);680681 /*682 * This is special! We do not need thespinlock683 * when clearing I_LOCK, because we'reguaranteed684 * that nobody else tries to do anythingabout the685 * state of the inode when it is locked, aswe686 * just created it (so there can be no oldholders687 * that haven't tested I_LOCK).688 */689 inode->i_state &= ~I_LOCK;690 wake_up(&inode->i_wait);691692 return inode;693 }694695 /*696 * Uhhuh, somebody else created the same inode under697 * us. Use the old inode instead of the one we just698 * allocated.699 */700 __iget(old);701 spin_unlock(&inode_lock);702 destroy_inode(inode);703 inode = old;704 wait_on_inode(inode);705 }706 return inode;707}

对有的文件系统来说，是“读入”索引节点，对有的文件系统来说，是将磁盘上的相关信息变成一个索引节点。

对于节点的读入，具体的函数是通过函数跳转表super_operations结构中的函数指针read_inode提供的。每个设备的super_block结构都有一个指针s_o,指向具体的跳转表。对于ext2来说，这个跳转表就是ext2_sops，具体的函数是ext2_read_inode()(见文件fs/ext2/super.c)

150static struct super_operations ext2_sops = {

151 read_inode: ext2_read_inode,

152 write_inode: ext2_write_inode,

153 put_inode: ext2_put_inode,

154 delete_inode: ext2_delete_inode,

155 put_super: ext2_put_super,

156 write_super: ext2_write_super,

157 statfs: ext2_statfs,

158 remount_fs: ext2_remount,

159};

函数ext2_read_inode的代码在fs/ext2/inode.c中

[path_walk()> real_lookup() > ext2_lookup() > iget() >get_new_inode() >ext2_read_inode()]

961void ext2_read_inode (struct inode * inode)962{//从磁盘上读取相应的信息，在内存中建立相应的inode节点信息，但是这个函数的输入是什么？963 struct buffer_head * bh;964 struct ext2_inode * raw_inode;965 unsigned long block_group;966 unsigned long group_desc;967 unsigned long desc;968 unsigned long block;969 unsigned long offset;970 struct ext2_group_desc * gdp;971972 if ((inode->i_ino != EXT2_ROOT_INO && inode->i_ino!= EXT2_ACL_IDX_INO &&973 inode->i_ino != EXT2_ACL_DATA_INO &&974 inode->i_ino < EXT2_FIRST_INO(inode->i_sb)) ||975 inode->i_ino >le32_to_cpu(inode->i_sb->u.ext2_sb.s_es->s_inodes_count)) {976 ext2_error (inode->i_sb, "ext2_read_inode",977 "bad inode number: %lu",inode->i_ino);978 goto bad_inode;979 }980 block_group = (inode->i_ino - 1) /EXT2_INODES_PER_GROUP(inode->i_sb);981 if (block_group >= inode->i_sb->u.ext2_sb.s_groups_count){982 ext2_error (inode->i_sb, "ext2_read_inode",983 "group >= groups count");984 goto bad_inode;985 }986 group_desc = block_group >>EXT2_DESC_PER_BLOCK_BITS(inode->i_sb);987 desc = block_group & (EXT2_DESC_PER_BLOCK(inode->i_sb)- 1);988 bh = inode->i_sb->u.ext2_sb.s_group_desc[group_desc];989 if (!bh) {990 ext2_error (inode->i_sb, "ext2_read_inode",991 "Descriptor not loaded");992 goto bad_inode;993 }994995 gdp = (struct ext2_group_desc *) bh->b_data;996 /*997 * Figure out the offset within the block group inode table998 */999 offset = ((inode->i_ino - 1) %EXT2_INODES_PER_GROUP(inode->i_sb)) *1000 EXT2_INODE_SIZE(inode->i_sb);1001 block = le32_to_cpu(gdp[desc].bg_inode_table) +1002 (offset >> EXT2_BLOCK_SIZE_BITS(inode->i_sb));1003 if (!(bh = bread (inode->i_dev, block,inode->i_sb->s_blocksize))) {1004 ext2_error (inode->i_sb, "ext2_read_inode",1005 "unable to read inode block - "1006 "inode=%lu, block=%lu",inode->i_ino, block);1007 goto bad_inode;1008 }1009 offset &= (EXT2_BLOCK_SIZE(inode->i_sb) - 1);1010 raw_inode = (struct ext2_inode *) (bh->b_data + offset);10111012 inode->i_mode = le16_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_mode);1013 inode->i_uid = (uid_t)le16_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_uid_low);1014 inode->i_gid = (gid_t)le16_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_gid_low);1015 if(!(test_opt (inode->i_sb, NO_UID32))) {1016 inode->i_uid |= le16_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_uid_high)<< 16;1017 inode->i_gid |= le16_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_gid_high)<< 16;1018 }1019 inode->i_nlink = le16_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_links_count);1020 inode->i_size = le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_size);1021 inode->i_atime = le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_atime);1022 inode->i_ctime = le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_ctime);1023 inode->i_mtime = le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_mtime);1024 inode->u.ext2_i.i_dtime = le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_dtime);1025 /* We now have enough fields to check if the inode was activeor not.1026 * This is needed because nfsd might try to access deadinodes1027 * the test is that same one that e2fsck uses1028 * NeilBrown 1999oct151029 */1030 if (inode->i_nlink == 0 && (inode->i_mode == 0|| inode->u.ext2_i.i_dtime)) {1031 /* this inode is deleted */1032 brelse (bh);1033 goto bad_inode;1034 }1035 inode->i_blksize = PAGE_SIZE; /* This is the optimal IOsize (for stat), not the fs block size */1036 inode->i_blocks = le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_blocks);1037 inode->i_version = ++event;1038 inode->u.ext2_i.i_flags = le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_flags);1039 inode->u.ext2_i.i_faddr = le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_faddr);1040 inode->u.ext2_i.i_frag_no = raw_inode->i_frag;1041 inode->u.ext2_i.i_frag_size = raw_inode->i_fsize;1042 inode->u.ext2_i.i_file_acl =le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_file_acl);1043 if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))1044 inode->u.ext2_i.i_dir_acl =le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_dir_acl);1045 else {1046 inode->u.ext2_i.i_high_size =le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_size_high);1047 inode->i_size |=((__u64)le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_size_high)) << 32;1048 }1049 inode->i_generation =le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_generation);1050 inode->u.ext2_i.i_block_group = block_group;10511052 /*1053 * NOTE! The in-memory inode i_data array is in little-endianorder1054 * even on big-endian machines: we do NOT byteswap the blocknumbers!1055 */1056 for (block = 0; block < EXT2_N_BLOCKS; block++)1057 inode->u.ext2_i.i_data[block] =raw_inode->i_block[block];

未完待续

在ext2格式的磁盘上，有些索引节点是有特殊用途的，在include/linux/ext2_fs.h中有这些节点的定义：

55/*

56 * Special inode numbers

57 */

58#define EXT2_BAD_INO 1 /* Bad blocks inode */

59#define EXT2_ROOT_INO 2 /* Root inode */

60#define EXT2_ACL_IDX_INO 3 /* ACL inode */

61#define EXT2_ACL_DATA_INO 4 /* ACL inode */

62#define EXT2_BOOT_LOADER_INO 5 /* Boot loader inode */

63#define EXT2_UNDEL_DIR_INO 6 /* Undelete directory inode*/

65/* First non-reserved inode for old ext2 filesystems */

66#define EXT2_GOOD_OLD_FIRST_INO 11

68/*

69 * The second extended file system magic number

70 */

71#define EXT2_SUPER_MAGIC 0xEF53

73/*

74 * Maximal count of links to a file

75 */

76#define EXT2_LINK_MAX 32000

78/*

79 * Macro-instructions used to manage several block sizes

80 */

81#define EXT2_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE 1024

82#define EXT2_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE 4096

83#define EXT2_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE 10

这些索引节点都是为系统保留的，对它们的访问不同过目录项而通过定义的节点号进行。磁盘设备的super_block结构中提供磁盘上第一个供常规用途的索引节点的节点号以及索引节点的总数，这两项参数都被用于对节点号的范围检查。

从概念上，ext2格式的磁盘设备上，除了引导块和超级块以外，剩下部分是索引节点和数据。而实际上分区先划分成若干“记录块组”，然后再将每个记录块组分成索引节点和数据两个部分，而关于“记录块组”的信息记录在超级块中。所以，给定索引节点，访问文件的流程是索引节点号》》所在记录块组号+组内偏移》》节点所在的记录块号》》通过设备驱动读取信息。从磁盘上读取的是ext2-inode数据结构信息，是原始的，代码中称为raw_inode；内存中的inode结构中的信息有两个部分，一个是VFS层面，另外一个是具体的文件系统，就是那个union，对于ext2来说，这部分数据形成一个ext2_inode_info结构，这是在inlude/linux/ext2_fs_i.h定义的：

22struct ext2_inode_info {

23 __u32 i_data[15];

24 __u32 i_flags;

25 __u32 i_faddr;

26 __u8 i_frag_no;

27 __u8 i_frag_size;

28 __u16 i_osync;

29 __u32 i_file_acl; //acess control list

30 __u32 i_dir_acl;

31 __u32 i_dtime;

32 __u32 not_used_1; /* FIX: not used/ 2.2 placeholder */

33 __u32 i_block_group;

34 __u32 i_next_alloc_block;

35 __u32 i_next_alloc_goal;

36 __u32 i_prealloc_block;

37 __u32 i_prealloc_count;

38 __u32 i_high_size;

39 int i_new_inode:1; /* Is a freshly allocated inode */

40};

结构中的idata存放着一些指针，直接或者间接指向磁盘上保存着这些文件的记录块。至于代表着符号连接的节点，并没有实际的内容，所以正好可以用这块空间存储链接目标的路径名。代码中通过for循环将15个整数复制到inode结构的union中。

在ext2_read_inode()的代码中继续往下看（fs/ext2/inode.c）:

[path_walk()> real_lookup() > ext2_lookup() > iget() >get_new_inode() >ext2_read_inode()]1059 if (inode->i_ino == EXT2_ACL_IDX_INO ||1060 inode->i_ino == EXT2_ACL_DATA_INO)1061 /* Nothing to do */ ;1062 else if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {1063 inode->i_op = &ext2_file_inode_operations;1064 inode->i_fop = &ext2_file_operations;1065 inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &ext2_aops;1066 } else if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) {1067 inode->i_op = &ext2_dir_inode_operations;1068 inode->i_fop = &ext2_dir_operations;1069 } else if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) {1070 if (!inode->i_blocks)1071 inode->i_op =&ext2_fast_symlink_inode_operations;1072 else {1073 inode->i_op =&page_symlink_inode_operations;1074 inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &ext2_aops;1075 }1076 } else1077 init_special_inode(inode, inode->i_mode,1078 le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_block[0]));1079 brelse (bh);1080 inode->i_attr_flags = 0;1081 if (inode->u.ext2_i.i_flags & EXT2_SYNC_FL) {1082 inode->i_attr_flags |= ATTR_FLAG_SYNCRONOUS;1083 inode->i_flags |= S_SYNC;1084 }1085 if (inode->u.ext2_i.i_flags & EXT2_APPEND_FL) {1086 inode->i_attr_flags |= ATTR_FLAG_APPEND;1087 inode->i_flags |= S_APPEND;1088 }1089 if (inode->u.ext2_i.i_flags & EXT2_IMMUTABLE_FL) {1090 inode->i_attr_flags |= ATTR_FLAG_IMMUTABLE;1091 inode->i_flags |= S_IMMUTABLE;1092 }1093 if (inode->u.ext2_i.i_flags & EXT2_NOATIME_FL) {1094 inode->i_attr_flags |= ATTR_FLAG_NOATIME;1095 inode->i_flags |= S_NOATIME;1096 }1097 return;10981099bad_inode:1100 make_bad_inode(inode);1101 return;1102}

接着，就是根据句由索引节点所提供的信息设置inode结构中的inode_operations结构指针和file_operations结构指针，完成具体文件系统和虚拟文件系统之间的连接。

通过检查inode结构中的字段来判断节点是否是常规文件（S_ISREG）目录等而做不同的设置或者处理。例如：目录节点的i_op&i_fop分别设置成指向ext2_dir_inode_operations和ext2_dir_operations，对于常规文件，还有两外一个指针a_ops,指向一个address_space_operations数据结构，用于文件到内存空间的映射或者缓冲；对于特殊文件需要用init_special_inode()加以检查和处理。