From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V2 07/12] fs: Add locking for a dynamic inode 'mode'
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:08:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200115190846.GE23311@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200114010322.GS8247@magnolia>
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 05:03:22PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 04:20:05PM -0800, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 02:12:18PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 11:29:37AM -0800, ira.weiny@intel.com wrote:
> > > > From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
[snip]
> > > > +``lock_mode``
> > > > + called to prevent operations which depend on the inode's mode from
> > > > + proceeding should a mode change be in progress
> > >
> > > "Inodes can't change mode, because files do not suddenly become
> > > directories". ;)
> >
> > Yea sorry.
> >
> > >
> > > Oh, you meant "lock_XXXX is called to prevent a change in the pagecache
> > > mode from proceeding while there are address space operations in
> > > progress". So these are really more aops get and put functions...
> >
> > At first I actually did have aops get/put functions but this is really
> > protecting more than the aops vector because as Christoph said there are file
> > operations which need to be protected not just address space operations.
> >
> > But I agree "mode" is a bad name... Sorry...
>
> inode_fops_{get,set}(), then?
>
> inode_start_fileop()
> inode_end_fileop() ?
>
> Trying to avoid sounding foppish <COUGH>
What about?
inode_[un]lock_state()?
Ira
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-15 19:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-10 19:29 [RFC PATCH V2 00/12] Enable per-file/directory DAX operations V2 ira.weiny
2020-01-10 19:29 ` [RFC PATCH V2 01/12] fs/stat: Define DAX statx attribute ira.weiny
2020-01-15 11:37 ` Jan Kara
2020-01-15 17:38 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-15 19:45 ` Ira Weiny
2020-01-15 20:10 ` Dan Williams
2020-01-15 22:38 ` Ira Weiny
2020-01-16 5:39 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-16 6:05 ` Dan Williams
2020-01-16 6:18 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-16 6:25 ` Dan Williams
2020-01-18 9:11 ` Dave Chinner
2020-01-16 17:55 ` Ira Weiny
2020-01-16 18:04 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-16 18:52 ` Ira Weiny
2020-01-16 22:19 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-17 11:58 ` Jan Kara
2020-01-10 19:29 ` [RFC PATCH V2 02/12] fs/xfs: Isolate the physical DAX flag from effective ira.weiny
2020-01-10 19:29 ` [RFC PATCH V2 03/12] fs/xfs: Separate functionality of xfs_inode_supports_dax() ira.weiny
2020-01-10 19:29 ` [RFC PATCH V2 04/12] fs/xfs: Clean up DAX support check ira.weiny
2020-01-10 19:29 ` [RFC PATCH V2 05/12] fs: remove unneeded IS_DAX() check ira.weiny
2020-01-16 9:38 ` Jan Kara
2020-01-16 18:47 ` Ira Weiny
2020-01-10 19:29 ` [RFC PATCH V2 06/12] fs/xfs: Check if the inode supports DAX under lock ira.weiny
2020-01-10 19:29 ` [RFC PATCH V2 07/12] fs: Add locking for a dynamic inode 'mode' ira.weiny
2020-01-13 22:12 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-14 0:20 ` Ira Weiny
2020-01-14 1:03 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-15 19:08 ` Ira Weiny [this message]
2020-01-16 5:40 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-16 18:54 ` Ira Weiny
2020-01-10 19:29 ` [RFC PATCH V2 08/12] fs/xfs: Add lock/unlock mode to xfs ira.weiny
2020-01-11 14:49 ` kbuild test robot
2020-01-13 22:19 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-14 0:35 ` Ira Weiny
2020-01-15 0:57 ` Ira Weiny
2020-01-15 23:52 ` Ira Weiny
2020-01-16 9:24 ` Jan Kara
2020-01-16 19:12 ` Ira Weiny
2020-01-10 19:29 ` [RFC PATCH V2 09/12] fs: Prevent mode change if file is mmap'ed ira.weiny
2020-01-13 22:22 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-14 0:46 ` Ira Weiny
2020-01-14 1:30 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-14 17:53 ` Ira Weiny
2020-01-15 11:34 ` Jan Kara
2020-01-15 18:24 ` Ira Weiny
2020-01-15 10:21 ` David Laight
2020-01-15 17:53 ` Ira Weiny
2020-01-10 19:29 ` [RFC PATCH V2 10/12] fs/xfs: Fix truncate up ira.weiny
2020-01-13 22:27 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-14 0:40 ` Ira Weiny
2020-01-14 1:14 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-14 19:00 ` Ira Weiny
2020-01-14 19:39 ` Ira Weiny
2020-01-10 19:29 ` [RFC PATCH V2 11/12] fs/xfs: Clean up locking in dax invalidate ira.weiny
2020-01-10 19:29 ` [RFC PATCH V2 12/12] fs/xfs: Allow toggle of effective DAX flag ira.weiny
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