文件系统--create和mknod什么关系

mknod系统调用

      是没有所谓的create系统调用的，只有mknod系统调用。mknodat和mknod两个syscall实际都调用do_mknodat()函数。

      do_mknodat()都干啥呢。

---------------------------------------------------namei.c
long do_mknodat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, umode_t mode,
		unsigned int dev)
{
	struct dentry *dentry;
	struct path path;
	unsigned int lookup_flags = 0;

	error = may_mknod(mode);
	if (error) return error;
retry:
	dentry = user_path_create(dfd, filename, &path, lookup_flags);
	if (IS_ERR(dentry)) return PTR_ERR(dentry);

	if (!IS_POSIXACL(path.dentry->d_inode)) mode &= ~current_umask();
	error = security_path_mknod(&path, dentry, mode, dev);
	if (error)
		goto out;
	switch (mode & S_IFMT) {
		case 0: case S_IFREG:
			error = vfs_create(path.dentry->d_inode,dentry,mode,true);
			if (!error)
				ima_post_path_mknod(dentry);
			break;
		case S_IFCHR: case S_IFBLK:
			error = vfs_mknod(path.dentry->d_inode,dentry,mode,
					new_decode_dev(dev));
			break;
		case S_IFIFO: case S_IFSOCK:
			error = vfs_mknod(path.dentry->d_inode,dentry,mode,0);
			break;
	}
out:
	done_path_create(&path, dentry);
	if (retry_estale(error, lookup_flags)) {
		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL;
		goto retry;
	}
	return error;
}

1. may_mknod根据mode检查文件是否可以创建，显然可以创建的是REG， CHR，BLK，FIFO和SOCK这五种文件，DIR和其他是非法的。

static int may_mknod(umode_t mode)
{
	switch (mode & S_IFMT) {
	case S_IFREG:
	case S_IFCHR:
	case S_IFBLK:
	case S_IFIFO:
	case S_IFSOCK:
	case 0: /* zero mode translates to S_IFREG */
		return 0;
	case S_IFDIR:
		return -EPERM;
	default:
		return -EINVAL;
	}
}

2.根据文件类型使用相应的vfs_xxx

普通文件就vfs_create(parent_inode, sub_dentry, mode)

其他几种文件就vfs_mknod(parent_inode, sub_dentry, mode)

其实都是分别走到 parent dir的dir->i_op->create()和dir->i_op->mknod()，所以区别还是要看各个文件系统的dir的i_op是如何实现的了。

以ext4为例

-------------------------------------------------------------------fs/ext4/namei.c
/*
 * directories can handle most operations...
 */
const struct inode_operations ext4_dir_inode_operations = {
	.create		= ext4_create,
	.lookup		= ext4_lookup,
	.link		= ext4_link,
	.unlink		= ext4_unlink,
	.symlink	= ext4_symlink,
	.mkdir		= ext4_mkdir,
	.rmdir		= ext4_rmdir,
	.mknod		= ext4_mknod,
	.tmpfile	= ext4_tmpfile,
	.rename		= ext4_rename2,
	.setattr	= ext4_setattr,
	.getattr	= ext4_getattr,
	.listxattr	= ext4_listxattr,
	.get_acl	= ext4_get_acl,
	.set_acl	= ext4_set_acl,
	.fiemap         = ext4_fiemap,
};

ext4_mknod和ext4_create的区别也不大

create比较好理解，就是基本的inode和file的ops；对应的mknod这边init_special_inode就是根据文件类型（CHR，BLK，FIFO）来设置不同的i_fops以及i_op。

open系统调用

       如果flag中包含O_CREAT，文件不存在，则open系统调用就会创建文件，当然这个仅针对regular file，所以走的是create。