sb_wait_write()->percpu_rwsem_release() fools lockdep to avoid the false-positives. Now that xfs was fixed by Dave's commit dbad7c993053 ("xfs: stop holding ILOCK over filldir callbacks") we can remove it and change freeze_super() and thaw_super() to run with s_writers.rw_sem locks held; we add two trivial helpers for that, sb_freeze_release() and sb_freeze_acquire(). xfstests-dev/check `grep -il freeze tests/*/???` does not trigger any warning from lockdep. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/super.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c index 2549896c..a9757e1 100644 --- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -1214,25 +1214,34 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__sb_start_write); static void sb_wait_write(struct super_block *sb, int level) { percpu_down_write(sb->s_writers.rw_sem + level-1); - /* - * We are going to return to userspace and forget about this lock, the - * ownership goes to the caller of thaw_super() which does unlock. - * - * FIXME: we should do this before return from freeze_super() after we - * called sync_filesystem(sb) and s_op->freeze_fs(sb), and thaw_super() - * should re-acquire these locks before s_op->unfreeze_fs(sb). However - * this leads to lockdep false-positives, so currently we do the early - * release right after acquire. - */ - percpu_rwsem_release(sb->s_writers.rw_sem + level-1, 0, _THIS_IP_); } -static void sb_freeze_unlock(struct super_block *sb) +/* + * We are going to return to userspace and forget about these locks, the + * ownership goes to the caller of thaw_super() which does unlock(). + */ +static void sb_freeze_release(struct super_block *sb) +{ + int level; + + for (level = SB_FREEZE_LEVELS - 1; level >= 0; level--) + percpu_rwsem_release(sb->s_writers.rw_sem + level, 0, _THIS_IP_); +} + +/* + * Tell lockdep we are holding these locks before we call ->unfreeze_fs(sb). + */ +static void sb_freeze_acquire(struct super_block *sb) { int level; for (level = 0; level < SB_FREEZE_LEVELS; ++level) percpu_rwsem_acquire(sb->s_writers.rw_sem + level, 0, _THIS_IP_); +} + +static void sb_freeze_unlock(struct super_block *sb) +{ + int level; for (level = SB_FREEZE_LEVELS - 1; level >= 0; level--) percpu_up_write(sb->s_writers.rw_sem + level); @@ -1328,6 +1337,7 @@ int freeze_super(struct super_block *sb) * when frozen is set to SB_FREEZE_COMPLETE, and for thaw_super(). */ sb->s_writers.frozen = SB_FREEZE_COMPLETE; + sb_freeze_release(sb); up_write(&sb->s_umount); return 0; } @@ -1354,11 +1364,14 @@ int thaw_super(struct super_block *sb) goto out; } + sb_freeze_acquire(sb); + if (sb->s_op->unfreeze_fs) { error = sb->s_op->unfreeze_fs(sb); if (error) { printk(KERN_ERR "VFS:Filesystem thaw failed\n"); + sb_freeze_release(sb); up_write(&sb->s_umount); return error; } -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html