There are three entry points which dirty pages in a filesystem. mmap (handled by block_page_mkwrite()), buffered write (handled by __generic_file_aio_write()), and truncate (it can dirty last partial page - handled inside each filesystem separately). Protect these places with sb_start_write() and sb_end_write(). Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/buffer.c | 22 ++++------------------ mm/filemap.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 19d8eb7..550714d 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -2338,8 +2338,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_commit_write); * beyond EOF, then the page is guaranteed safe against truncation until we * unlock the page. * - * Direct callers of this function should call vfs_check_frozen() so that page - * fault does not busyloop until the fs is thawed. + * Direct callers of this function should protect against filesystem freezing + * using sb_start_write() - sb_end_write() functions. */ int __block_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf, get_block_t get_block) @@ -2371,18 +2371,7 @@ int __block_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf, if (unlikely(ret < 0)) goto out_unlock; - /* - * Freezing in progress? We check after the page is marked dirty and - * with page lock held so if the test here fails, we are sure freezing - * code will wait during syncing until the page fault is done - at that - * point page will be dirty and unlocked so freezing code will write it - * and writeprotect it again. - */ set_page_dirty(page); - if (inode->i_sb->s_frozen != SB_UNFROZEN) { - ret = -EAGAIN; - goto out_unlock; - } wait_on_page_writeback(page); return 0; out_unlock: @@ -2397,12 +2386,9 @@ int block_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf, int ret; struct super_block *sb = vma->vm_file->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_sb; - /* - * This check is racy but catches the common case. The check in - * __block_page_mkwrite() is reliable. - */ - vfs_check_frozen(sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE); + sb_start_write(sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE); ret = __block_page_mkwrite(vma, vmf, get_block); + sb_end_write(sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE); return block_page_mkwrite_return(ret); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_page_mkwrite); diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index c0018f2..471b9ae 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -2529,7 +2529,7 @@ ssize_t __generic_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov, count = ocount; pos = *ppos; - vfs_check_frozen(inode->i_sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE); + sb_start_write(inode->i_sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE); /* We can write back this queue in page reclaim */ current->backing_dev_info = mapping->backing_dev_info; @@ -2601,6 +2601,7 @@ ssize_t __generic_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov, pos, ppos, count, written); } out: + sb_end_write(inode->i_sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE); current->backing_dev_info = NULL; return written ? written : err; } -- 1.7.1 -- 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