Freezing and thawing are separate system calls, task which is supposed to thaw filesystem/superblock can disappear due to crash or not thaw due to a bug. Record at least task name (we can't take task_struct reference) to make support engineer's life easier. Hopefully 16 bytes per superblock isn't much. P.S.: Cc'ing GFS2 people just in case they want to correct my understanding of GFS2 having async freeze code. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ioctl.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------ fs/super.c | 2 ++ include/linux/fs.h | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ioctl.c +++ b/fs/ioctl.c @@ -518,6 +518,7 @@ static int ioctl_fioasync(unsigned int fd, struct file *filp, static int ioctl_fsfreeze(struct file *filp) { struct super_block *sb = file_inode(filp)->i_sb; + int rv; if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return -EPERM; @@ -527,22 +528,31 @@ static int ioctl_fsfreeze(struct file *filp) return -EOPNOTSUPP; /* Freeze */ - if (sb->s_op->freeze_super) - return sb->s_op->freeze_super(sb); - return freeze_super(sb); + if (sb->s_op->freeze_super) { + rv = sb->s_op->freeze_super(sb); + if (rv == 0) + get_task_comm(sb->s_writers.freeze_comm, current); + } else + rv = freeze_super(sb); + return rv; } static int ioctl_fsthaw(struct file *filp) { struct super_block *sb = file_inode(filp)->i_sb; + int rv; if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return -EPERM; /* Thaw */ - if (sb->s_op->thaw_super) - return sb->s_op->thaw_super(sb); - return thaw_super(sb); + if (sb->s_op->thaw_super) { + rv = sb->s_op->thaw_super(sb); + if (rv == 0) + memset(sb->s_writers.freeze_comm, 0, TASK_COMM_LEN); + } else + rv = thaw_super(sb); + return rv; } /* --- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -1355,6 +1355,7 @@ int freeze_super(struct super_block *sb) * sees write activity when frozen is set to SB_FREEZE_COMPLETE. */ sb->s_writers.frozen = SB_FREEZE_COMPLETE; + get_task_comm(sb->s_writers.freeze_comm, current); up_write(&sb->s_umount); return 0; } @@ -1391,6 +1392,7 @@ int thaw_super(struct super_block *sb) out: sb->s_writers.frozen = SB_UNFROZEN; + memset(sb->s_writers.freeze_comm, 0, TASK_COMM_LEN); smp_wmb(); wake_up(&sb->s_writers.wait_unfrozen); deactivate_locked_super(sb); --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1221,6 +1221,8 @@ struct sb_writers { int frozen; /* Is sb frozen? */ wait_queue_head_t wait_unfrozen; /* queue for waiting for sb to be thawed */ + /* who froze superblock */ + char freeze_comm[16]; #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC struct lockdep_map lock_map[SB_FREEZE_LEVELS]; #endif -- 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