2 files changed, 13 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/btrfs_inode.h b/fs/btrfs/btrfs_inode.h
index 63f0ccc92a71..f527e99c9f8d 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/btrfs_inode.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/btrfs_inode.h
@@ -195,7 +195,6 @@ struct btrfs_inode {
 
 	/* Hook into fs_info->delayed_iputs */
 	struct list_head delayed_iput;
-	long delayed_iput_count;
 
 	/*
 	 * To avoid races between lockless (i_mutex not held) direct IO writes
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index 4d3a4d1507a1..b55b47f493e9 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -3242,6 +3242,16 @@ static int btrfs_readpage_end_io_hook(struct btrfs_io_bio *io_bio,
 				      start, (size_t)(end - start + 1));
 }
 
+/*
+ * btrfs_add_delayed_iput - perform a delayed iput on @inode
+ *
+ * @inode: The inode we want to perform iput on
+ *
+ * This function uses the generic vfs_inode::i_count to track whether we should
+ * just decrement it (in case it's > 1) or if this is the last iput then link
+ * the inode to the delayed iput machinery. Delayed iputs are processed at
+ * transaction commit time/superblock commit/cleaner kthread.
+ */
 void btrfs_add_delayed_iput(struct inode *inode)
 {
 	struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info = btrfs_sb(inode->i_sb);
@@ -3251,12 +3261,8 @@ void btrfs_add_delayed_iput(struct inode *inode)
 		return;
 
 	spin_lock(&fs_info->delayed_iput_lock);
-	if (binode->delayed_iput_count == 0) {
-		ASSERT(list_empty(&binode->delayed_iput));
-		list_add_tail(&binode->delayed_iput, &fs_info->delayed_iputs);
-	} else {
-		binode->delayed_iput_count++;
-	}
+	ASSERT(list_empty(&binode->delayed_iput));
+	list_add_tail(&binode->delayed_iput, &fs_info->delayed_iputs);
 	spin_unlock(&fs_info->delayed_iput_lock);
 }
 
@@ -3269,13 +3275,7 @@ void btrfs_run_delayed_iputs(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info)
 
 		inode = list_first_entry(&fs_info->delayed_iputs,
 				struct btrfs_inode, delayed_iput);
-		if (inode->delayed_iput_count) {
-			inode->delayed_iput_count--;
-			list_move_tail(&inode->delayed_iput,
-					&fs_info->delayed_iputs);
-		} else {
-			list_del_init(&inode->delayed_iput);
-		}
+		list_del_init(&inode->delayed_iput);
 		spin_unlock(&fs_info->delayed_iput_lock);
 		iput(&inode->vfs_inode);
 		spin_lock(&fs_info->delayed_iput_lock);
@@ -9333,7 +9333,6 @@ struct inode *btrfs_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
 	ei->dir_index = 0;
 	ei->last_unlink_trans = 0;
 	ei->last_log_commit = 0;
-	ei->delayed_iput_count = 0;
 
 	spin_lock_init(&ei->lock);
 	ei->outstanding_extents = 0;