On Tue 24-11-20 14:27:10, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Store the frozen superblock in struct block_device to avoid the awkward > interface that can return a sb only used a cookie, an ERR_PTR or NULL. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Some comments below... > diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c > index d8664f5c1ff669..60492620d51866 100644 > --- a/fs/block_dev.c > +++ b/fs/block_dev.c > @@ -548,55 +548,47 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(fsync_bdev); > * count down in thaw_bdev(). When it becomes 0, thaw_bdev() will unfreeze > * actually. > */ > -struct super_block *freeze_bdev(struct block_device *bdev) > +int freeze_bdev(struct block_device *bdev) > { > struct super_block *sb; > int error = 0; > > mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_fsfreeze_mutex); > - if (++bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count > 1) { > - /* > - * We don't even need to grab a reference - the first call > - * to freeze_bdev grab an active reference and only the last > - * thaw_bdev drops it. > - */ > - sb = get_super(bdev); > - if (sb) > - drop_super(sb); > - mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_fsfreeze_mutex); > - return sb; > - } > + if (++bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count > 1) > + goto done; > > sb = get_active_super(bdev); > if (!sb) > - goto out; > + goto sync; > if (sb->s_op->freeze_super) > error = sb->s_op->freeze_super(sb); > else > error = freeze_super(sb); > + deactivate_super(sb); > + > if (error) { > - deactivate_super(sb); > bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count--; > - mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_fsfreeze_mutex); > - return ERR_PTR(error); > + goto done; > } > - deactivate_super(sb); > - out: > + bdev->bd_fsfreeze_sb = sb; > + > +sync: > sync_blockdev(bdev); > +done: > mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_fsfreeze_mutex); > - return sb; /* thaw_bdev releases s->s_umount */ > + return error; /* thaw_bdev releases s->s_umount */ The comment about thaw_bdev() seems to be stale? At least I don't see what it's speaking about... > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL(freeze_bdev); > > /** > * thaw_bdev -- unlock filesystem > * @bdev: blockdevice to unlock > - * @sb: associated superblock > * > * Unlocks the filesystem and marks it writeable again after freeze_bdev(). > */ > -int thaw_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, struct super_block *sb) > +int thaw_bdev(struct block_device *bdev) > { > + struct super_block *sb; > int error = -EINVAL; > > mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_fsfreeze_mutex); > @@ -607,6 +599,7 @@ int thaw_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, struct super_block *sb) > if (--bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count > 0) > goto out; > > + sb = bdev->bd_fsfreeze_sb; > if (!sb) > goto out; > > @@ -618,7 +611,7 @@ int thaw_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, struct super_block *sb) > bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count++; > out: > mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_fsfreeze_mutex); > - return error; > + return 0; But we now won't return -EINVAL if this gets called e.g. with bd_fsfreeze_count == 0, right? Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel