Hi Ted,
Have you had the chance to review the most recent version of the patch?
Does it look reasonable to you?
Cheers,
Alex
On 08.04.19 10:35, Alexander Lochmann wrote:
> We used LockDoc to derive locking rules for each member
> of struct transaction_t.
> Based on those results, we extended the existing documentation
> by more members of struct transaction_t, and updated the existing
> documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lochmann <alexander.lochmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Horst Schirmeier <horst.schirmeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/jbd2.h | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/jbd2.h b/include/linux/jbd2.h
> index 0f919d5fe84f..34b728e2b702 100644
> --- a/include/linux/jbd2.h
> +++ b/include/linux/jbd2.h
> @@ -534,6 +534,7 @@ struct transaction_chp_stats_s {
> * The transaction keeps track of all of the buffers modified by a
> * running transaction, and all of the buffers committed but not yet
> * flushed to home for finished transactions.
> + * (Locking Documentation improved by LockDoc)
> */
>
> /*
> @@ -652,12 +653,12 @@ struct transaction_s
> unsigned long t_start;
>
> /*
> - * When commit was requested
> + * When commit was requested [journal_t.j_state_lock]
> */
> unsigned long t_requested;
>
> /*
> - * Checkpointing stats [j_checkpoint_sem]
> + * Checkpointing stats [journal_t.j_list_lock]
> */
> struct transaction_chp_stats_s t_chp_stats;
>
>
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