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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] update Documentation/filesystems/Locking
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:22:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090619182237.GA11086@lst.de> (raw)

The rules for locking in many superblock operations has changed
significantly, so update the documentation for it.  Also correct some
older updates and ommissions.


Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/filesystems/Locking	2009-06-13 17:41:07.606841805 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/Documentation/filesystems/Locking	2009-06-13 17:47:42.400814653 +0200
@@ -109,27 +109,28 @@ prototypes:
 
 locking rules:
 	All may block.
-			BKL	s_lock	s_umount
-alloc_inode:		no	no	no
-destroy_inode:		no
-dirty_inode:		no				(must not sleep)
-write_inode:		no
-drop_inode:		no				!!!inode_lock!!!
-delete_inode:		no
-put_super:		yes	yes	no
-write_super:		no	yes	read
-sync_fs:		no	no	read
-freeze_fs:		?
-unfreeze_fs:		?
-statfs:			no	no	no
-remount_fs:		yes	yes	maybe		(see below)
-clear_inode:		no
-umount_begin:		yes	no	no
-show_options:		no				(vfsmount->sem)
-quota_read:		no	no	no		(see below)
-quota_write:		no	no	no		(see below)
+	None have BKL
+			s_umount
+alloc_inode:
+destroy_inode:
+dirty_inode:				(must not sleep)
+write_inode:
+drop_inode:				!!!inode_lock!!!
+delete_inode:
+put_super:		write
+write_super:		read
+sync_fs:		read
+freeze_fs:		read
+unfreeze_fs:		read
+statfs:			no
+remount_fs:		maybe		(see below)
+clear_inode:
+umount_begin:		no
+show_options:		no		(namespace_sem)
+quota_read:		no		(see below)
+quota_write:		no		(see below)
 
-->remount_fs() will have the s_umount lock if it's already mounted.
+->remount_fs() will have the s_umount exclusive lock if it's already mounted.
 When called from get_sb_single, it does NOT have the s_umount lock.
 ->quota_read() and ->quota_write() functions are both guaranteed to
 be the only ones operating on the quota file by the quota code (via

             reply	other threads:[~2009-06-19 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-19 18:22 Christoph Hellwig [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-18 21:07 [PATCH] Update Documentation/filesystems/Locking Matthew Wilcox

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