On Thu 12-01-12 16:57:42, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 1/11/12 7:20 PM, Jan Kara wrote: > > @@ -183,6 +186,13 @@ static struct super_block *alloc_super(struct file_system_type *type) > > s->s_shrink.seeks = DEFAULT_SEEKS; > > s->s_shrink.shrink = prune_super; > > s->s_shrink.batch = 1024; > > + > > + init_waitqueue_head(&s->s_writers_wait); > > +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP > > + s->s_page_faults = alloc_percpu(int); > > isn't this s->s_writers? s->s_page_faults isn't defined anywhere. Right. Leftover from original implementation and since I was doing initial testing only using UML, I didn't spot this. Thanks. > > +#endif > > + lockdep_init_map(&s->s_writers_lock_map, "sb_writers", > > + &sb_writers_key, 0); > > } > > out: > > return s; > > @@ -1126,6 +1136,84 @@ out: > > } > > > > /** > > + * sb_start_write - drop write access to a superblock > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > s/b sb_end_write Fixed. > > @@ -1136,6 +1224,7 @@ out: > > int freeze_super(struct super_block *sb) > > { > > int ret; > > + int writers; > > > > atomic_inc(&sb->s_active); > > down_write(&sb->s_umount); > > @@ -1151,8 +1240,36 @@ int freeze_super(struct super_block *sb) > > return 0; > > } > > > > + rwsem_acquire(&sb->s_writers_lock_map, 0, 0, _THIS_IP_); > > sb->s_frozen = SB_FREEZE_WRITE; > > - smp_wmb(); > > + /* > > + * Now wait for all page faults to finish. ->page_mkwrite() > > + * implementations must call vfs_check_frozen() before starting > > + * a fault so that we cannot livelock here. Because of that we > > + * are guaranteed that from this moment on new ->page_mkwrite() > > + * calls will block and we just have to wait for s_page_faults > > wait for s_writers, right? Yes. Fixed. Thanks for review. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- 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