Re: [PATCH 07/10] pnfs-submit: avoid race handling return on close

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Trond Myklebust
<trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 13:32 -0400, Fred Isaman wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Benny Halevy <bhalevy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Jun. 14, 2010, 21:46 -0400, Fred Isaman <iisaman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> This prepares for the next patch.
>> >>
>> >> NOTE this doesn't really fix any current race, since
>> >> layout going to NULL is OK.  But layout changing from NULL to nonNULL
>> >> is a real race that is not fixed
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> ---
>> >>  fs/nfs/nfs4state.c        |    5 +++--
>> >>  fs/nfs/pnfs.c             |   11 +++++++++++
>> >>  include/linux/nfs4_pnfs.h |    2 ++
>> >>  3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
>> >> index d5144bd..8a7a64c 100644
>> >> --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
>> >> +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
>> >> @@ -594,11 +594,12 @@ static void __nfs4_close(struct path *path, struct nfs4_state *state,
>> >>       } else {
>> >>  #ifdef CONFIG_NFS_V4_1
>> >>               struct nfs_inode *nfsi = NFS_I(state->inode);
>> >> +             int roc = nfs4_roc_iomode(nfsi);
>> >>
>> >> -             if (has_layout(nfsi) && nfsi->layout.roc_iomode) {
>> >> +             if (roc) {
>> >>                       struct nfs4_pnfs_layout_segment range;
>> >>
>> >> -                     range.iomode = nfsi->layout.roc_iomode;
>> >> +                     range.iomode = roc;
>> >>                       range.offset = 0;
>> >>                       range.length = NFS4_MAX_UINT64;
>> >>                       pnfs_return_layout(state->inode, &range, NULL,
>> >> diff --git a/fs/nfs/pnfs.c b/fs/nfs/pnfs.c
>> >> index 6def09c..bd11ec7 100644
>> >> --- a/fs/nfs/pnfs.c
>> >> +++ b/fs/nfs/pnfs.c
>> >> @@ -321,6 +321,17 @@ pnfs_unregister_layoutdriver(struct pnfs_layoutdriver_type *ld_type)
>> >>  #define BUG_ON_UNLOCKED_LO(lo) do {} while (0)
>> >>  #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
>> >>
>> >> +int nfs4_roc_iomode(struct nfs_inode *nfsi)
>> >> +{
>> >> +     int rv = 0;
>> >> +
>> >> +     spin_lock(&pnfs_spinlock);
>> >
>> > Why take the global lock rather than nfsi->lo_lock?
>> >
>> > Benny
>>
>> You are right. That would be a copy-paste error.
>
> What's an nfsi->lo_lock, and why do we need one?
>
> Trond
>
>

It protects nfsi->layout and its contents.

Fred
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