[linux-lvm] Re: VFS locking patch fails on 2.4.4
Chris Mason
mason at suse.com
Mon Apr 30 01:53:58 UTC 2001
The only rejects were in fs.h, but here is a new patch against 2.4.4
diff -Nru a/drivers/md/lvm.c b/drivers/md/lvm.c
--- a/drivers/md/lvm.c Sun Apr 29 20:48:50 2001
+++ b/drivers/md/lvm.c Sun Apr 29 20:48:50 2001
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@
#define LOCAL_END_REQUEST
/* lvm_do_lv_create calls fsync_dev_lockfs()/unlockfs() */
-/* #define LVM_VFS_ENHANCEMENT */
+#define LVM_VFS_ENHANCEMENT
#include <linux/config.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
diff -Nru a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
--- a/fs/buffer.c Sun Apr 29 20:48:50 2001
+++ b/fs/buffer.c Sun Apr 29 20:48:50 2001
@@ -331,6 +331,28 @@
return sync_buffers(dev, 1);
}
+int fsync_dev_lockfs(kdev_t dev)
+{
+ sync_buffers(dev, 0);
+
+ lock_kernel();
+ sync_supers(dev);
+ /* note, the FS might need to start transactions to
+ ** sync the inodes, or the quota, no locking until
+ ** after these are done
+ */
+ sync_inodes(dev);
+ DQUOT_SYNC(dev);
+ /* if inodes or quotas could be dirtied during the
+ ** sync_supers_lockfs call, the FS is responsible for getting
+ ** them on disk, without deadlocking against the lock
+ */
+ sync_supers_lockfs(dev) ;
+ unlock_kernel();
+
+ return sync_buffers(dev, 1) ;
+}
+
asmlinkage long sys_sync(void)
{
fsync_dev(0);
diff -Nru a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
--- a/fs/super.c Sun Apr 29 20:48:49 2001
+++ b/fs/super.c Sun Apr 29 20:48:49 2001
@@ -630,6 +630,46 @@
}
}
+/*
+ * Note: don't check the dirty flag before waiting, we want the lock
+ * to happen every time this is called.
+ */
+void sync_supers_lockfs(kdev_t dev)
+{
+ struct super_block * sb;
+
+ for (sb = sb_entry(super_blocks.next);
+ sb != sb_entry(&super_blocks);
+ sb = sb_entry(sb->s_list.next)) {
+ if (!sb->s_dev)
+ continue;
+ if (dev && sb->s_dev != dev)
+ continue;
+ lock_super(sb);
+ if (sb->s_dev && (!dev || dev == sb->s_dev))
+ if (sb->s_op && sb->s_op->write_super_lockfs)
+ sb->s_op->write_super_lockfs(sb);
+ unlock_super(sb);
+ }
+}
+
+void unlockfs(kdev_t dev)
+{
+ struct super_block * sb;
+
+ for (sb = sb_entry(super_blocks.next);
+ sb != sb_entry(&super_blocks);
+ sb = sb_entry(sb->s_list.next)) {
+ if (!sb->s_dev)
+ continue;
+ if (dev && sb->s_dev != dev)
+ continue;
+ if (sb->s_dev && (!dev || dev == sb->s_dev))
+ if (sb->s_op && sb->s_op->unlockfs)
+ sb->s_op->unlockfs(sb);
+ }
+}
+
/**
* get_super - get the superblock of a device
* @dev: device to get the superblock for
diff -Nru a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
--- a/include/linux/fs.h Sun Apr 29 20:48:50 2001
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h Sun Apr 29 20:48:50 2001
@@ -1107,6 +1107,7 @@
extern void write_inode_now(struct inode *, int);
extern void sync_dev(kdev_t);
extern int fsync_dev(kdev_t);
+extern int fsync_dev_lockfs(kdev_t);
extern int fsync_super(struct super_block *);
extern void sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block *);
extern int osync_inode_buffers(struct inode *);
@@ -1117,6 +1118,8 @@
extern void filemap_fdatasync(struct address_space *);
extern void filemap_fdatawait(struct address_space *);
extern void sync_supers(kdev_t);
+extern void sync_supers_lockfs(kdev_t);
+extern void unlockfs(kdev_t);
extern int bmap(struct inode *, int);
extern int notify_change(struct dentry *, struct iattr *);
extern int permission(struct inode *, int);
diff -Nru a/kernel/ksyms.c b/kernel/ksyms.c
--- a/kernel/ksyms.c Sun Apr 29 20:48:50 2001
+++ b/kernel/ksyms.c Sun Apr 29 20:48:50 2001
@@ -179,6 +179,8 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(invalidate_inode_pages);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(truncate_inode_pages);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(fsync_dev);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(fsync_dev_lockfs);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(unlockfs);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(permission);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_permission);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_setattr);
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