From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Use a separate lock to protect the orphan list, so we can stop overloading the use of lock_super(). Crossport of 3b9d4ed26680771295d904a6b83e88e620780893 Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext3/namei.c | 20 +++++++++++--------- fs/ext3/super.c | 1 + include/linux/ext3_fs_sb.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext3/namei.c b/fs/ext3/namei.c index aad6400..76d4c58 100644 --- a/fs/ext3/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext3/namei.c @@ -1920,7 +1920,7 @@ int ext3_orphan_add(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode) struct ext3_iloc iloc; int err = 0, rc; - lock_super(sb); + mutex_lock(&EXT3_SB(sb)->s_orphan_lock); if (!list_empty(&EXT3_I(inode)->i_orphan)) goto out_unlock; @@ -1929,9 +1929,13 @@ int ext3_orphan_add(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode) /* @@@ FIXME: Observation from aviro: * I think I can trigger J_ASSERT in ext3_orphan_add(). We block - * here (on lock_super()), so race with ext3_link() which might bump + * here (on s_orphan_lock), so race with ext3_link() which might bump * ->i_nlink. For, say it, character device. Not a regular file, * not a directory, not a symlink and ->i_nlink > 0. + * + * tytso, 4/25/2009: I'm not sure how that could happen; + * shouldn't the fs core protect us from these sort of + * unlink()/link() races? */ J_ASSERT ((S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) || inode->i_nlink == 0); @@ -1968,7 +1972,7 @@ int ext3_orphan_add(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode) jbd_debug(4, "orphan inode %lu will point to %d\n", inode->i_ino, NEXT_ORPHAN(inode)); out_unlock: - unlock_super(sb); + mutex_unlock(&EXT3_SB(sb)->s_orphan_lock); ext3_std_error(inode->i_sb, err); return err; } @@ -1986,11 +1990,9 @@ int ext3_orphan_del(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode) struct ext3_iloc iloc; int err = 0; - lock_super(inode->i_sb); - if (list_empty(&ei->i_orphan)) { - unlock_super(inode->i_sb); - return 0; - } + mutex_lock(&EXT3_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_orphan_lock); + if (list_empty(&ei->i_orphan)) + goto out; ino_next = NEXT_ORPHAN(inode); prev = ei->i_orphan.prev; @@ -2040,7 +2042,7 @@ int ext3_orphan_del(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode) out_err: ext3_std_error(inode->i_sb, err); out: - unlock_super(inode->i_sb); + mutex_unlock(&EXT3_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_orphan_lock); return err; out_brelse: diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c index 602b308..534557c 100644 --- a/fs/ext3/super.c +++ b/fs/ext3/super.c @@ -1890,6 +1890,7 @@ static int ext3_fill_super (struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) sb->dq_op = &ext3_quota_operations; #endif INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sbi->s_orphan); /* unlinked but open files */ + mutex_init(&sbi->s_orphan_lock); sb->s_root = NULL; diff --git a/include/linux/ext3_fs_sb.h b/include/linux/ext3_fs_sb.h index f07f34d..dd61d83 100644 --- a/include/linux/ext3_fs_sb.h +++ b/include/linux/ext3_fs_sb.h @@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ struct ext3_sb_info { struct inode * s_journal_inode; struct journal_s * s_journal; struct list_head s_orphan; + struct mutex s_orphan_lock; unsigned long s_commit_interval; struct block_device *journal_bdev; #ifdef CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG -- 1.6.0.6 -- 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