Re: [PATCH 1/4] fs: Improve filesystem freezing handling

[Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>]

On Thu 12-01-12 16:57:42, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 1/11/12 7:20 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
> > @@ -183,6 +186,13 @@ static struct super_block *alloc_super(struct file_system_type *type)
> >  		s->s_shrink.seeks = DEFAULT_SEEKS;
> >  		s->s_shrink.shrink = prune_super;
> >  		s->s_shrink.batch = 1024;
> > +
> > +		init_waitqueue_head(&s->s_writers_wait);
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> > +		s->s_page_faults = alloc_percpu(int);
> 
> isn't this s->s_writers?  s->s_page_faults isn't defined anywhere.
  Right. Leftover from original implementation and since I was doing
initial testing only using UML, I didn't spot this. Thanks.

> > +#endif
> > +		lockdep_init_map(&s->s_writers_lock_map, "sb_writers",
> > +				 &sb_writers_key, 0);
> >  	}
> >  out:
> >  	return s;
> > @@ -1126,6 +1136,84 @@ out:
> >  }
> >  
> >  /**
> > + * sb_start_write - drop write access to a superblock
>       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> s/b sb_end_write
  Fixed.

> > @@ -1136,6 +1224,7 @@ out:
> >  int freeze_super(struct super_block *sb)
> >  {
> >  	int ret;
> > +	int writers;
> >  
> >  	atomic_inc(&sb->s_active);
> >  	down_write(&sb->s_umount);
> > @@ -1151,8 +1240,36 @@ int freeze_super(struct super_block *sb)
> >  		return 0;
> >  	}
> >  
> > +	rwsem_acquire(&sb->s_writers_lock_map, 0, 0, _THIS_IP_);
> >  	sb->s_frozen = SB_FREEZE_WRITE;
> > -	smp_wmb();
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Now wait for all page faults to finish. ->page_mkwrite()
> > +	 * implementations must call vfs_check_frozen() before starting
> > +	 * a fault so that we cannot livelock here. Because of that we
> > +	 * are guaranteed that from this moment on new ->page_mkwrite()
> > +	 * calls will block and we just have to wait for s_page_faults
> 
> wait for s_writers, right?
  Yes. Fixed.

  Thanks for review.

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR