From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/22] jbd2: Factor out common parts of stopping and restarting a handle
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 07:36:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191104123650.GB28764@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191023161724.GE31271@quack2.suse.cz>
On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 06:17:24PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > What is j_state_lock protecting at this point? There's only a 32-bit
> > read of j_commit_request at this point.
>
> We could almost drop the lock. To be fully correct, we'd then need to use
> READ_ONCE here and WRITE_ONCE in places changing j_commit_request (reasons
> are well summarized in recent LWN series on how compiler can screw your
> unlocked reads and writes). So probably a fair cleanup but something I've
> decided to leave for later.
Fair enough; maybe leave a quick TODO comment so we remember that this
is an outstanding clean up?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-04 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-03 22:05 [PATCH 0/19 v3] ext4: Fix transaction overflow due to revoke descriptors Jan Kara
2019-10-03 22:05 ` [PATCH 01/22] jbd2: Fix possible overflow in jbd2_log_space_left() Jan Kara
2019-10-21 1:08 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-03 22:05 ` [PATCH 02/22] jbd2: Fixup stale comment in commit code Jan Kara
2019-10-21 1:08 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-03 22:05 ` [PATCH 03/22] ext4: Do not iput inode under running transaction in ext4_mkdir() Jan Kara
2019-10-21 1:21 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-24 10:19 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-24 12:09 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-24 13:37 ` Jan Kara
2019-11-04 12:35 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-03 22:05 ` [PATCH 04/22] ext4: Fix credit estimate for final inode freeing Jan Kara
2019-10-21 1:07 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-24 10:30 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-03 22:05 ` [PATCH 05/22] ext4: Fix ext4_should_journal_data() for EA inodes Jan Kara
2019-10-21 1:38 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-23 16:55 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-03 22:05 ` [PATCH 06/22] ext4: Use ext4_journal_extend() instead of jbd2_journal_extend() Jan Kara
2019-10-21 1:39 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-03 22:05 ` [PATCH 07/22] ext4: Avoid unnecessary revokes in ext4_alloc_branch() Jan Kara
2019-10-21 13:39 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-03 22:05 ` [PATCH 08/22] ext4: Provide function to handle transaction restarts Jan Kara
2019-10-21 16:20 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-23 16:25 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-03 22:05 ` [PATCH 09/22] ext4, jbd2: Provide accessor function for handle credits Jan Kara
2019-10-21 16:21 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-03 22:05 ` [PATCH 10/22] ocfs2: Use accessor function for h_buffer_credits Jan Kara
2019-10-21 16:21 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-03 22:05 ` [PATCH 11/22] jbd2: Fix statistics for the number of logged blocks Jan Kara
2019-10-21 16:24 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-03 22:05 ` [PATCH 12/22] jbd2: Reorganize jbd2_journal_stop() Jan Kara
2019-10-21 17:29 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-03 22:05 ` [PATCH 13/22] jbd2: Drop pointless check from jbd2_journal_stop() Jan Kara
2019-10-21 17:30 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-03 22:06 ` [PATCH 14/22] jbd2: Drop pointless wakeup " Jan Kara
2019-10-21 17:34 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-03 22:06 ` [PATCH 15/22] jbd2: Factor out common parts of stopping and restarting a handle Jan Kara
2019-10-21 17:49 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-23 16:17 ` Jan Kara
2019-11-04 12:36 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2019-11-04 12:59 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-03 22:06 ` [PATCH 16/22] jbd2: Account descriptor blocks into t_outstanding_credits Jan Kara
2019-10-21 21:04 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-23 13:09 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-03 22:06 ` [PATCH 17/22] jbd2: Drop jbd2_space_needed() Jan Kara
2019-10-21 21:05 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-03 22:06 ` [PATCH 18/22] jbd2: Reserve space for revoke descriptor blocks Jan Kara
2019-10-21 21:47 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-23 13:27 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-03 22:06 ` [PATCH 19/22] jbd2: Rename h_buffer_credits to h_total_credits Jan Kara
2019-10-21 21:48 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-03 22:06 ` [PATCH 20/22] jbd2: Make credit checking more strict Jan Kara
2019-10-21 22:29 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-23 13:30 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-03 22:06 ` [PATCH 21/22] ext4: Reserve revoke credits for freed blocks Jan Kara
2019-10-21 23:18 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-23 16:13 ` Jan Kara
2019-11-04 13:08 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-11-05 8:31 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-03 22:06 ` [PATCH 22/22] jbd2: Provide trace event for handle restarts Jan Kara
2019-10-21 23:18 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-19 19:19 ` [PATCH 0/19 v3] ext4: Fix transaction overflow due to revoke descriptors Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-24 13:09 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-24 15:12 ` Jan Kara
2019-11-04 3:32 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-11-04 11:22 ` Jan Kara
2019-11-04 13:09 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 0/25 " Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 01/25] jbd2: Fix possible overflow in jbd2_log_space_left() Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 02/25] jbd2: Fixup stale comment in commit code Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 03/25] jbd2: Completely fill journal descriptor blocks Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 04/25] ext4: Move marking of handle as sync to ext4_add_nondir() Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 05/25] ext4: Do not iput inode under running transaction Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 06/25] ext4: Fix credit estimate for final inode freeing Jan Kara
2019-11-05 21:00 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 07/25] ext4: Fix ext4_should_journal_data() for EA inodes Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 08/25] ext4: Use ext4_journal_extend() instead of jbd2_journal_extend() Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 09/25] ext4: Avoid unnecessary revokes in ext4_alloc_branch() Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 10/25] ext4: Provide function to handle transaction restarts Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 11/25] ext4, jbd2: Provide accessor function for handle credits Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 12/25] ocfs2: Use accessor function for h_buffer_credits Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 13/25] jbd2: Fix statistics for the number of logged blocks Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 14/25] jbd2: Reorganize jbd2_journal_stop() Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 15/25] jbd2: Drop pointless check from jbd2_journal_stop() Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 16/25] jbd2: Drop pointless wakeup " Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 17/25] jbd2: Factor out common parts of stopping and restarting a handle Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 18/25] jbd2: Account descriptor blocks into t_outstanding_credits Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 19/25] jbd2: Drop jbd2_space_needed() Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 20/25] jbd2: Reserve space for revoke descriptor blocks Jan Kara
2019-11-15 7:52 ` Eric Biggers
2019-11-15 10:02 ` Jan Kara
2019-11-15 14:20 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-11-15 17:10 ` Eric Biggers
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 21/25] jbd2: Rename h_buffer_credits to h_total_credits Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 22/25] jbd2: Make credit checking more strict Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 23/25] ext4: Reserve revoke credits for freed blocks Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 24/25] jbd2: Provide trace event for handle restarts Jan Kara
2019-11-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 25/25] jbd2: Fine tune estimate of necessary descriptor blocks Jan Kara
2019-11-05 21:04 ` [PATCH 0/25 v3] ext4: Fix transaction overflow due to revoke descriptors Theodore Y. Ts'o
[not found] ` <20191112220614.GA11089@mit.edu>
[not found] ` <20191113094545.GC6367@quack2.suse.cz>
2019-11-14 5:26 ` [PATCH 0/19 " Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-11-14 8:49 ` Jan Kara
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