On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 05:59:36PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 12:03:29PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I think I owe you a reply here... Sorry that it took so long. > > Took me just as long :) > > > On Fri 01-12-17 22:13:27, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > > I'll note that its still not perfectly clear if really the semantics behind > > > freeze_bdev() match what I described above fully. That still needs to be > > > vetted for. For instance, does thaw_bdev() keep a superblock frozen if we > > > an ioctl initiated freeze had occurred before? If so then great. Otherwise > > > I think we'll need to distinguish the ioctl interface. Worst possible case > > > is that bdev semantics and in-kernel semantics differ somehow, then that > > > will really create a holy fucking mess. > > > > I believe nobody really thought about mixing those two interfaces to fs > > freezing and so the behavior is basically defined by the implementation. > > That is: > > > > freeze_bdev() on sb frozen by ioctl_fsfreeze() -> EBUSY > > freeze_bdev() on sb frozen by freeze_bdev() -> success > > ioctl_fsfreeze() on sb frozen by freeze_bdev() -> EBUSY > > ioctl_fsfreeze() on sb frozen by ioctl_fsfreeze() -> EBUSY > > > > thaw_bdev() on sb frozen by ioctl_fsfreeze() -> EINVAL > > Phew, so this is what we want for the in-kernel freezing so we're good > and *can* combine these then. I double checked, and I don't see where you get EINVAL for this case. We *do* keep the sb frozen though, which is good, and the worst fear I had was that we did not. However we return 0 if there was already a prior freeze_bdev() or ioctl_fsfreeze() other than the context that started the prior freeze (--bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count > 0). The -EINVAL is only returned currently if there were no freezers. int thaw_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, struct super_block *sb) { int error = -EINVAL; mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_fsfreeze_mutex); if (!bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count) goto out; error = 0; if (--bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count > 0) goto out; ... out: mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_fsfreeze_mutex); return error; } Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html