Re: [RFC PATCH] cifs: remove superfluous inode_lock in cifs_{strict_}fsync

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Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Best regards,
Pavel Shilovsky

пн, 8 апр. 2019 г. в 09:06, Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Restarted the automated tests after updating for-next and added this patch ontop
>
> http://smb3-test-rhel-75.southcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com/#/builders/2/builds/185
>
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 10:29 AM Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Kicked off automated tests with this patch included - see
> > http://smb3-test-rhel-75.southcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com/#/builders/2/builds/184
> >  (I will kick off other test buckets later)
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 9:59 AM Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Originally, filemap_write_and_wait took the i_mutex internally, but
> > > commit 02c24a82187d pushed the mutex acquisition into the individual
> > > fsync routines, leaving it up to the subsystem maintainers to remove
> > > it if it wasn't needed.
> > >
> > > For cifs, I see no reason to take the inode_lock here. All of the
> > > operations inside that lock are protected in other ways.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  fs/cifs/file.c | 5 -----
> > >  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > Steve, would you or someone else be able to test this?
> > >
> > > I'm proposing a similar patch for kcephfs. I don't have an appropriate
> > > test rig at the moment, and I was hoping someone more involved with
> > > cifs.ko development these days may be able to do so.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jeff
> > >
> > > diff --git a/fs/cifs/file.c b/fs/cifs/file.c
> > > index 89006e044973..c4b84fd423c3 100644
> > > --- a/fs/cifs/file.c
> > > +++ b/fs/cifs/file.c
> > > @@ -2424,7 +2424,6 @@ int cifs_strict_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end,
> > >         rc = file_write_and_wait_range(file, start, end);
> > >         if (rc)
> > >                 return rc;
> > > -       inode_lock(inode);
> > >
> > >         xid = get_xid();
> > >
> > > @@ -2449,7 +2448,6 @@ int cifs_strict_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end,
> > >         }
> > >
> > >         free_xid(xid);
> > > -       inode_unlock(inode);
> > >         return rc;
> > >  }
> > >
> > > @@ -2461,12 +2459,10 @@ int cifs_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
> > >         struct TCP_Server_Info *server;
> > >         struct cifsFileInfo *smbfile = file->private_data;
> > >         struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb = CIFS_FILE_SB(file);
> > > -       struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
> > >
> > >         rc = file_write_and_wait_range(file, start, end);
> > >         if (rc)
> > >                 return rc;
> > > -       inode_lock(inode);
> > >
> > >         xid = get_xid();
> > >
> > > @@ -2483,7 +2479,6 @@ int cifs_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
> > >         }
> > >
> > >         free_xid(xid);
> > > -       inode_unlock(inode);
> > >         return rc;
> > >  }
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.20.1
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steve
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Steve




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