When we are overwriting a file and not actually allocating new file system blocks we need to take only the read lock on i_data_sem. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 669d560..7dda65d 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -895,11 +895,31 @@ int ext4_get_blocks_wrap(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, sector_t block, int create, int extend_disksize) { int retval; - if (create) { - down_write((&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem)); + /* + * Try to see if we can get the block without requesting + * for new file system block. + */ + down_read((&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem)); + if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL) { + retval = ext4_ext_get_blocks(handle, inode, block, max_blocks, + bh, 0, 0); } else { - down_read((&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem)); + retval = ext4_get_blocks_handle(handle, inode, block, max_blocks, + bh, 0, 0); } + up_read((&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem)); + if (!create || (retval > 0)) + return retval; + + /* + * We need to allocate new blocks which will result + * in i_data update + */ + down_write((&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem)); + /* + * We need to check for EXT4 here because migrate + * could have changed the inode type in between + */ if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL) { retval = ext4_ext_get_blocks(handle, inode, block, max_blocks, bh, create, extend_disksize); @@ -907,11 +927,7 @@ int ext4_get_blocks_wrap(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, sector_t block, retval = ext4_get_blocks_handle(handle, inode, block, max_blocks, bh, create, extend_disksize); } - if (create) { - up_write((&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem)); - } else { - up_read((&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem)); - } + up_write((&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem)); return retval; } static int ext4_get_block(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock, -- 1.5.4.rc0-dirty - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html