This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
UBIFS: remove mst_mutex
to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ubifs-remove-mst_mutex.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 07e19dff63e3d5d6500d831e36554ac9b1b0560e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 16:55:02 +0300
Subject: UBIFS: remove mst_mutex
From: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 07e19dff63e3d5d6500d831e36554ac9b1b0560e upstream.
The 'mst_mutex' is not needed since because 'ubifs_write_master()' is only
called on the mount path and commit path. The mount path is sequential and
there is no parallelism, and the commit path is also serialized - there is only
one commit going on at a time.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ubifs/commit.c | 2 --
fs/ubifs/master.c | 7 +++----
fs/ubifs/super.c | 1 -
fs/ubifs/ubifs.h | 2 --
4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ubifs/commit.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/commit.c
@@ -174,7 +174,6 @@ static int do_commit(struct ubifs_info *
if (err)
goto out;
- mutex_lock(&c->mst_mutex);
c->mst_node->cmt_no = cpu_to_le64(c->cmt_no);
c->mst_node->log_lnum = cpu_to_le32(new_ltail_lnum);
c->mst_node->root_lnum = cpu_to_le32(zroot.lnum);
@@ -204,7 +203,6 @@ static int do_commit(struct ubifs_info *
else
c->mst_node->flags &= ~cpu_to_le32(UBIFS_MST_NO_ORPHS);
err = ubifs_write_master(c);
- mutex_unlock(&c->mst_mutex);
if (err)
goto out;
--- a/fs/ubifs/master.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/master.c
@@ -352,10 +352,9 @@ int ubifs_read_master(struct ubifs_info
* ubifs_write_master - write master node.
* @c: UBIFS file-system description object
*
- * This function writes the master node. The caller has to take the
- * @c->mst_mutex lock before calling this function. Returns zero in case of
- * success and a negative error code in case of failure. The master node is
- * written twice to enable recovery.
+ * This function writes the master node. Returns zero in case of success and a
+ * negative error code in case of failure. The master node is written twice to
+ * enable recovery.
*/
int ubifs_write_master(struct ubifs_info *c)
{
--- a/fs/ubifs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c
@@ -1957,7 +1957,6 @@ static struct ubifs_info *alloc_ubifs_in
mutex_init(&c->lp_mutex);
mutex_init(&c->tnc_mutex);
mutex_init(&c->log_mutex);
- mutex_init(&c->mst_mutex);
mutex_init(&c->umount_mutex);
mutex_init(&c->bu_mutex);
mutex_init(&c->write_reserve_mutex);
--- a/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h
+++ b/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h
@@ -1042,7 +1042,6 @@ struct ubifs_debug_info;
*
* @mst_node: master node
* @mst_offs: offset of valid master node
- * @mst_mutex: protects the master node area, @mst_node, and @mst_offs
*
* @max_bu_buf_len: maximum bulk-read buffer length
* @bu_mutex: protects the pre-allocated bulk-read buffer and @c->bu
@@ -1282,7 +1281,6 @@ struct ubifs_info {
struct ubifs_mst_node *mst_node;
int mst_offs;
- struct mutex mst_mutex;
int max_bu_buf_len;
struct mutex bu_mutex;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from artem.bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/ubifs-fix-free-log-space-calculation.patch
queue-3.14/ubifs-remove-mst_mutex.patch
queue-3.14/ubifs-fix-a-race-condition.patch
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