Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add timeout feature

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Hi,

o Reset the timeout period
  int ioctl(int fd, int FIFREEZE_RESET_TIMEOUT, long *timeval)
    fd:file descriptor of mountpoint
    FIFREEZE_RESET_TIMEOUT: request code for reset of timeout period
    timeval: new timeout period in seconds
    Return value: 0 if the operation succeeds. Otherwise, -1
    Error number: If the filesystem has already been unfrozen,
                  errno is set to EINVAL.

Please avoid the use of the term `timeval' here.  That term is closely
associated with `struct timeval', and these are not being used here.  A
better identifier would be timeout_secs - it tells the reader what it
does, and it tells the reader what units it is in.  And when it comes
to "time", it is very useful to tell people which units are being used,
because there are many different ones.

OK.
I will use "timeout_secs" in the next version to match the source code.

-static int ioctl_freeze(struct file *filp)
+static int ioctl_freeze(struct file *filp, unsigned long arg)
 {
+    long timeout_sec;
+    long timeout_msec;
     struct super_block *sb = filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_sb;
+    int error;

     if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
         return -EPERM;
@@ -159,8 +163,27 @@ static int ioctl_freeze(struct file *fil
     if (sb->s_op->write_super_lockfs == NULL)
         return -EOPNOTSUPP;

+    /* arg(sec) to tick value. */
+    error = get_user(timeout_sec, (long __user *) arg);>
uh-oh, compat problems.

A 32-bit application running under a 32-bit kernel will need to provide
a 32-bit quantity.

A 32-bit application running under a 64-bit kernel will need to provide
a 64-bit quantity.

I suggest that you go through the entire patch and redo this part of
the kernel ABI in terms of __u32, and avoid any mention of "long" in
the kernel<->userspace interface.

I agree.
I will replace long with a 32bit integer type.

+    /* arg(sec) to tick value. */
+    error = get_user(timeout_sec, (long __user *) arg);
+    if (timeout_sec < 0)
+        return -EINVAL;
+    else if (timeout_sec < 2)
+        timeout_sec = 0;> The `else' is unneeded.

It would be clearer to code this all as:

if (timeout_sec < 0)
    return -EINVAL;

if (timeout_sec == 1) {
    /*
     * If 1 is specified as the timeout period it is changed into 0
     * to retain compatibility with XFS's xfs_freeze.
     */
    timeout_sec = 0;
}

OK.

+    if (error)
+        return error;
+    timeout_msec = timeout_sec * 1000;
+    if (timeout_msec < 0)
+        return -EINVAL;

um, OK, but timeout_msec could have overflowed during the
multiplication and could be complete garbage.  I guess it doesn't
matter much, but a cleaner approach might be:

if (timeout_sec > LONG_MAX/1000)
    return -EINVAL;

or something like that.

OK.

But otoh, why do the multiplication at all?  If we're able to handle
the timeout down to the millisecond level, why not offer that
resolution to userspace?  Offer the increased time granularity to the
application?

I think there is no case the user specifies it in millisecond,
so the second granularity is more comfortable.

+    if (sb) {

Can this happen?

I have found that sb == NULL never happen
but sb->s_bdev == NULL can happen when we call this ioctl
for a device file (not a directory or a regular file).
So I will add the following check.
if (sb->s_bdev == NULL)
   return -EINVAL;

+    if (test_and_set_bit(BD_FREEZE_OP, &sb->s_bdev->bd_state))
+        return -EBUSY;
+    if (sb->s_frozen == SB_UNFROZEN) {
+        clear_bit(BD_FREEZE_OP, &sb->s_bdev->bd_state);
+        return -EINVAL;
+    }
+    /* setup unfreeze timer */
+    if (timeout_msec > 0)

What does this test do?  afacit it's special-casing the timeout_secs==0
case.  Was this feature documented?  What does it do?

There is no special case of timeout_secs==0.
I will remove this check.

+void add_freeze_timeout(struct block_device *bdev, long timeout_msec)
+{
+    s64 timeout_jiffies = msecs_to_jiffies(timeout_msec);
+
+    /* Set delayed work queue */
+    cancel_delayed_work(&bdev->bd_freeze_timeout);

Should this have used cancel_delayed_work_sync()?

Exactly.
I will replace cancel_delayed_work with cancel_delayed_work_sync.

+void del_freeze_timeout(struct block_device *bdev)
+{
+ if (delayed_work_pending(&bdev->bd_freeze_timeout))

Is this test needed?

It's not necessary because cancel_delayed_work_sync checks it itself.
I will remove it.

--- linux-2.6.26-rc7-xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c 2008-06-23 11:55:15.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6.26-rc7-timeout/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c 2008-06-23 11:56:47.000000000 +0900
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ xfs_fs_goingdown(
 {
 switch (inflags) {
 case XFS_FSOP_GOING_FLAGS_DEFAULT: {
- struct super_block *sb = freeze_bdev(mp->m_super->s_bdev);
+ struct super_block *sb = freeze_bdev(mp->m_super->s_bdev, 0);

Using NULL here is clearer and will, I expect, avoid a sparse warning.

I checked it but I couldn't find a sparse warning in xfs_fsops.c.
Can you tell me how to use NULL?

Cheers, Takashi
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