[Devel] [PATCH v12 05/18] fs: do not use destroy_super() in alloc_super() fail path

[Al Viro]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 01:23:01PM +0400, Vladimir Davydov wrote:

> Actually, I'm not going to modify the list_lru structure, because I
> think it's good as it is. I'd like to substitute it with a new
> structure, memcg_list_lru, only in those places where this functionality
> (per-memcg scanning) is really needed. This new structure would look
> like this:
> 
> struct memcg_list_lru {
>     struct list_lru global_lru;
>     struct list_lru **memcg_lrus;
>     struct list_head list;
>     void *old_lrus;
> }
> 
> Since old_lrus and memcg_lrus can be NULL under normal operation, in
> memcg_list_lru_destroy() I'd have to check either the list or the
> global_lru field, i.e. it would look like:
> 
> if (!list.next)
>     /* has not been initialized */
>     return;
> 
> or

... or just use hlist_head.