Re: [PATCH 3/8] ext3: remove lock/unlock super

From: Jan Kara
Date: Thu Aug 16 2012 - 12:39:10 EST


On Thu 16-08-12 12:00:26, Marco Stornelli wrote:
> From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Replaced lock and unlock super with a new fs mutex s_lock.
Hum, is the lock needed at all? Remount & unfreeze both run with s_umount
held for writing. Thus we already have exclusion between these two calls.
The same seems to hold for ext4 BTW.

Honza
>
> Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> diff -Nurp linux-3.6-rc1-orig/fs/ext3/ext3.h linux-3.6-rc1/fs/ext3/ext3.h
> --- linux-3.6-rc1-orig/fs/ext3/ext3.h 2012-08-16 09:37:31.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-3.6-rc1/fs/ext3/ext3.h 2012-08-16 09:46:39.000000000 +0200
> @@ -672,6 +672,7 @@ struct ext3_sb_info {
> char *s_qf_names[MAXQUOTAS]; /* Names of quota files with journalled quota */
> int s_jquota_fmt; /* Format of quota to use */
> #endif
> + struct mutex s_lock;
> };
> static inline spinlock_t *
> diff -Nurp linux-3.6-rc1-orig/fs/ext3/super.c linux-3.6-rc1/fs/ext3/super.c
> --- linux-3.6-rc1-orig/fs/ext3/super.c 2012-08-16 09:37:31.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-3.6-rc1/fs/ext3/super.c 2012-08-16 09:49:11.000000000 +0200
> @@ -1939,6 +1939,7 @@ static int ext3_fill_super (struct super
> sbi->s_gdb_count = db_count;
> get_random_bytes(&sbi->s_next_generation, sizeof(u32));
> spin_lock_init(&sbi->s_next_gen_lock);
> + mutex_init(&sbi->s_lock);
> /* per fileystem reservation list head & lock */
> spin_lock_init(&sbi->s_rsv_window_lock);
> @@ -2582,11 +2583,11 @@ out:
> static int ext3_unfreeze(struct super_block *sb)
> {
> if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
> - lock_super(sb);
> + mutex_lock(&EXT3_SB(sb)->s_lock);
> /* Reser the needs_recovery flag before the fs is unlocked. */
> EXT3_SET_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER);
> ext3_commit_super(sb, EXT3_SB(sb)->s_es, 1);
> - unlock_super(sb);
> + mutex_unlock(&EXT3_SB(sb)->s_lock);
> journal_unlock_updates(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal);
> }
> return 0;
> @@ -2606,7 +2607,7 @@ static int ext3_remount (struct super_bl
> #endif
> /* Store the original options */
> - lock_super(sb);
> + mutex_lock(&EXT3_SB(sb)->s_lock);
> old_sb_flags = sb->s_flags;
> old_opts.s_mount_opt = sbi->s_mount_opt;
> old_opts.s_resuid = sbi->s_resuid;
> @@ -2712,7 +2713,7 @@ static int ext3_remount (struct super_bl
> old_opts.s_qf_names[i] != sbi->s_qf_names[i])
> kfree(old_opts.s_qf_names[i]);
> #endif
> - unlock_super(sb);
> + mutex_unlock(&EXT3_SB(sb)->s_lock);
> if (enable_quota)
> dquot_resume(sb, -1);
> @@ -2732,7 +2733,7 @@ restore_opts:
> sbi->s_qf_names[i] = old_opts.s_qf_names[i];
> }
> #endif
> - unlock_super(sb);
> + mutex_unlock(&EXT3_SB(sb)->s_lock);
> return err;
> }
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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