Re: [PATCH 04/24] fs: Provide infrastructure for dynamic BDIs in filesystems

From: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>,
	linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org, cluster-devel@redhat.com,
	osd-dev@open-osd.org, codalist@TELEMANN.coda.cs.cmu.edu,
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	linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
	v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net,
	lustre-devel@lists.lustre.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/24] fs: Provide infrastructure for dynamic BDIs in filesystems
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 11:28:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170202192827.GF6550@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170202173422.3240-5-jack@suse.cz>

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 06:34:02PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Provide helper functions for setting up dynamically allocated
> backing_dev_info structures for filesystems and cleaning them up on
> superblock destruction.

Just one concern, will this cause problems for multiple superblock cases
like nfs with nosharecache?

Thanks,

-liubo

> 
> CC: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
> CC: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
> CC: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
> CC: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org
> CC: cluster-devel@redhat.com
> CC: osd-dev@open-osd.org
> CC: codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu
> CC: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
> CC: ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org
> CC: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
> CC: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
> CC: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
> CC: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
> CC: lustre-devel@lists.lustre.org
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> ---
>  fs/super.c                       | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h |  2 +-
>  include/linux/fs.h               |  6 +++++
>  3 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
> index ea662b0e5e78..31dc4c6450ef 100644
> --- a/fs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/super.c
> @@ -446,6 +446,11 @@ void generic_shutdown_super(struct super_block *sb)
>  	hlist_del_init(&sb->s_instances);
>  	spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
>  	up_write(&sb->s_umount);
> +	if (sb->s_iflags & SB_I_DYNBDI) {
> +		bdi_put(sb->s_bdi);
> +		sb->s_bdi = &noop_backing_dev_info;
> +		sb->s_iflags &= ~SB_I_DYNBDI;
> +	}
>  }
>  
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_shutdown_super);
> @@ -1249,6 +1254,50 @@ mount_fs(struct file_system_type *type, int flags, const char *name, void *data)
>  }
>  
>  /*
> + * Setup private BDI for given superblock. I gets automatically cleaned up
> + * in generic_shutdown_super().
> + */
> +int super_setup_bdi_name(struct super_block *sb, char *fmt, ...)
> +{
> +	struct backing_dev_info *bdi;
> +	int err;
> +	va_list args;
> +
> +	bdi = bdi_alloc(GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!bdi)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +	bdi->name = sb->s_type->name;
> +
> +	va_start(args, fmt);
> +	err = bdi_register_va(bdi, NULL, fmt, args);
> +	va_end(args);
> +	if (err) {
> +		bdi_put(bdi);
> +		return err;
> +	}
> +	WARN_ON(sb->s_bdi != &noop_backing_dev_info);
> +	sb->s_bdi = bdi;
> +	sb->s_iflags |= SB_I_DYNBDI;
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(super_setup_bdi_name);
> +
> +/*
> + * Setup private BDI for given superblock. I gets automatically cleaned up
> + * in generic_shutdown_super().
> + */
> +int super_setup_bdi(struct super_block *sb)
> +{
> +	static atomic_long_t bdi_seq = ATOMIC_LONG_INIT(0);
> +
> +	return super_setup_bdi_name(sb, "%.28s-%ld", sb->s_type->name,
> +				    atomic_long_inc_return(&bdi_seq));
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(super_setup_bdi);
> +
> +/*
>   * This is an internal function, please use sb_end_{write,pagefault,intwrite}
>   * instead.
>   */
> diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h b/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
> index 2ecafc8a2d06..70080b4217f4 100644
> --- a/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
> @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ struct backing_dev_info {
>  	congested_fn *congested_fn; /* Function pointer if device is md/dm */
>  	void *congested_data;	/* Pointer to aux data for congested func */
>  
> -	char *name;
> +	const char *name;
>  
>  	struct kref refcnt;	/* Reference counter for the structure */
>  	unsigned int registered:1;	/* Is bdi registered? */
> diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
> index c930cbc19342..8ed8b6d1bc54 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -1267,6 +1267,9 @@ struct mm_struct;
>  /* sb->s_iflags to limit user namespace mounts */
>  #define SB_I_USERNS_VISIBLE		0x00000010 /* fstype already mounted */
>  
> +/* Temporary flag until all filesystems are converted to dynamic bdis */
> +#define SB_I_DYNBDI	0x00000100
> +
>  /* Possible states of 'frozen' field */
>  enum {
>  	SB_UNFROZEN = 0,		/* FS is unfrozen */
> @@ -2103,6 +2106,9 @@ extern int vfs_ustat(dev_t, struct kstatfs *);
>  extern int freeze_super(struct super_block *super);
>  extern int thaw_super(struct super_block *super);
>  extern bool our_mnt(struct vfsmount *mnt);
> +extern __printf(2, 3)
> +int super_setup_bdi_name(struct super_block *sb, char *fmt, ...);
> +extern int super_setup_bdi(struct super_block *sb);
>  
>  extern int current_umask(void);
>  
> -- 
> 2.10.2
> 