From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Upstream commit: 467f78992a0743e0e71729e4faa20b67b0f25289 We do not need the ilock for generic_write_checks and the i_size_read, which are protected by i_mutex and/or iolock, so reduce the ilock critical section to just the call to xfs_zero_eof. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@xxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c | 23 +++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c index 1dbd1d8..d0239cf 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c +++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c @@ -589,35 +589,31 @@ xfs_file_aio_write_checks( struct xfs_inode *ip = XFS_I(inode); int error = 0; - xfs_rw_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL); restart: error = generic_write_checks(file, pos, count, S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode)); - if (error) { - xfs_rw_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL); + if (error) return error; - } /* * If the offset is beyond the size of the file, we need to zero any * blocks that fall between the existing EOF and the start of this * write. If zeroing is needed and we are currently holding the - * iolock shared, we need to update it to exclusive which involves - * dropping all locks and relocking to maintain correct locking order. - * If we do this, restart the function to ensure all checks and values - * are still valid. + * iolock shared, we need to update it to exclusive which implies + * having to redo all checks before. */ if (*pos > i_size_read(inode)) { if (*iolock == XFS_IOLOCK_SHARED) { - xfs_rw_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL | *iolock); + xfs_rw_iunlock(ip, *iolock); *iolock = XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL; - xfs_rw_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL | *iolock); + xfs_rw_ilock(ip, *iolock); goto restart; } + xfs_rw_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL); error = -xfs_zero_eof(ip, *pos, i_size_read(inode)); + xfs_rw_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL); + if (error) + return error; } - xfs_rw_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL); - if (error) - return error; /* * Updating the timestamps will grab the ilock again from @@ -634,7 +630,6 @@ restart: * people from modifying setuid and setgid binaries. */ return file_remove_suid(file); - } /* -- 1.7.10 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs