On Wed 18-02-15 10:34:55, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:38:52AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Sat 14-02-15 21:55:24, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > 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>
> > Hum, and when do you show the task name? Or do you expect that customer
> > takes a crashdump and support just finds it in memory?
>
> Yeah, having at least something in crashdump is fine.
OK, then comment about this at freeze_comm[] definition so that it's
clear it isn't just set-but-never-read field.
> > > --- 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;
> > Why don't you just set the name in ioctl_fsfreeze() in both cases?
>
> There are users of freeze_super() in GFS2 unless I'm misreading code.
Yes, there are. The call in fs/gfs2/glops.c is in a call path from
->freeze_super() handler for GFS2 so that one is handled in
ioctl_fsfreeze() anyway. The call in fs/gfs2/sys.c is a way to freeze
filesystem via sysfs (dunno why GFS2 has to invent its own thing and ioctl
isn't enough). Steven? So having the logic in ioctl_fsfreeze(),
freeze_bdev() and freeze_store() in gfs2 seems to be enough.
> > Also you seem to be missing freezing / thawing in freeze/thaw_bdev()
> > functions.
>
> You are correct. Resending patch (blockdev freezing tested with XFS).
>
> > > --- 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];
> > Here should be TASK_COMM_LEN, shouldn't it?
>
> It will pull sched.h, dunno if we care about headers anymore.
That's not ideal but IMHO better than having the value hardcoded here.
That is pretty fragile - i.e. think what happens when someone decides to
increase TASK_COMM_LEN...
Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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