[PATCH] fs: fat: Refactor dirty flag handling
Daniel Palmer
daniel at thingy.jp
Tue Mar 10 23:06:18 CET 2026
Refactor the dirty flag handling a little bit so an inline
function is called instead of directly stuffing a value into
the variable.
This allows variable that holds the flag to be completely removed
if its not used i.e. CONFIG_FAT_WIRTE=n
Signed-off-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel at thingy.jp>
---
fs/fat/fat.c | 2 +-
fs/fat/fat_write.c | 9 ++++-----
include/fat.h | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/fat/fat.c b/fs/fat/fat.c
index 9ce5df59f9ba..1f05533a3781 100644
--- a/fs/fat/fat.c
+++ b/fs/fat/fat.c
@@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ static int get_fs_info(fsdata *mydata)
}
mydata->fatbufnum = -1;
- mydata->fat_dirty = 0;
+ fat_mark_clean(mydata);
mydata->fatbuf = malloc_cache_aligned(FATBUFSIZE);
if (mydata->fatbuf == NULL) {
debug("Error: allocating memory\n");
diff --git a/fs/fat/fat_write.c b/fs/fat/fat_write.c
index 0b924541187c..e1b5b32bfcbf 100644
--- a/fs/fat/fat_write.c
+++ b/fs/fat/fat_write.c
@@ -223,9 +223,9 @@ static int flush_dirty_fat_buffer(fsdata *mydata)
__u32 startblock = mydata->fatbufnum * FATBUFBLOCKS;
debug("debug: evicting %d, dirty: %d\n", mydata->fatbufnum,
- (int)mydata->fat_dirty);
+ (int)fat_is_dirty(mydata));
- if ((!mydata->fat_dirty) || (mydata->fatbufnum == -1))
+ if (!fat_is_dirty(mydata) || (mydata->fatbufnum == -1))
return 0;
/* Cap length if fatlength is not a multiple of FATBUFBLOCKS */
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ static int flush_dirty_fat_buffer(fsdata *mydata)
return -1;
}
}
- mydata->fat_dirty = 0;
+ fat_mark_clean(mydata);
return 0;
}
@@ -484,8 +484,7 @@ static int set_fatent_value(fsdata *mydata, __u32 entry, __u32 entry_value)
mydata->fatbufnum = bufnum;
}
- /* Mark as dirty */
- mydata->fat_dirty = 1;
+ fat_mark_dirty(mydata);
/* Set the actual entry */
switch (mydata->fatsize) {
diff --git a/include/fat.h b/include/fat.h
index bdf430f70675..40da0370a444 100644
--- a/include/fat.h
+++ b/include/fat.h
@@ -165,7 +165,9 @@ typedef struct {
int fatsize; /* Size of FAT in bits */
__u32 fatlength; /* Length of FAT in sectors */
__u16 fat_sect; /* Starting sector of the FAT */
+#ifdef CONFIG_FAT_WRITE
__u8 fat_dirty; /* Set if fatbuf has been modified */
+#endif
__u32 rootdir_sect; /* Start sector of root directory */
__u16 sect_size; /* Size of sectors in bytes */
__u16 clust_size; /* Size of clusters in sectors */
@@ -190,6 +192,30 @@ static inline u32 sect_to_clust(fsdata *fsdata, int sect)
return (sect - fsdata->data_begin) / fsdata->clust_size;
}
+static inline void fat_mark_clean(fsdata *fsdata)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_FAT_WRITE
+ fsdata->fat_dirty = 0;
+#endif
+}
+
+static inline void fat_mark_dirty(fsdata *fsdata)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_FAT_WRITE
+ fsdata->fat_dirty = 1;
+#endif
+}
+
+static inline bool fat_is_dirty(fsdata *fsdata)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_FAT_WRITE
+ if (fsdata->fat_dirty)
+ return true;
+#endif
+
+ return false;
+}
+
int file_fat_detectfs(void);
int fat_exists(const char *filename);
int fat_size(const char *filename, loff_t *size);
--
2.51.0
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