filesystem freeze: allow SysRq emergency thaw to thaw frozen filesystems

Now that the filesystem freeze operation has been elevated to the VFS, and
is just an ioctl away, some sort of safety net for unintentionally frozen
root filesystems may be in order.

The timeout thaw originally proposed did not get merged, but perhaps
something like this would be useful in emergencies.

For example, freeze /path/to/mountpoint may freeze your root filesystem if
you forgot that you had that unmounted.

I chose 'j' as the last remaining character other than 'h' which is sort
of reserved for help (because help is generated on any unknown character).

I've tested this on a non-root fs with multiple (nested) freezers, as well
as on a system rendered unresponsive due to a frozen root fs.

[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: emergency thaw only if CONFIG_BLOCK enabled]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index c77b848c3d43..f5f8b15a6e40 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -547,6 +547,39 @@ repeat:
         return err;
 }
 
+void do_thaw_all(unsigned long unused)
+{
+        struct super_block *sb;
+        char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
+
+        spin_lock(&sb_lock);
+restart:
+        list_for_each_entry(sb, &super_blocks, s_list) {
+                sb->s_count++;
+                spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
+                down_read(&sb->s_umount);
+                while (sb->s_bdev && !thaw_bdev(sb->s_bdev, sb))
+                        printk(KERN_WARNING "Emergency Thaw on %s\n",
+                               bdevname(sb->s_bdev, b));
+                up_read(&sb->s_umount);
+                spin_lock(&sb_lock);
+                if (__put_super_and_need_restart(sb))
+                        goto restart;
+        }
+        spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
+        printk(KERN_WARNING "Emergency Thaw complete\n");
+}
+
+/**
+ * emergency_thaw_all -- forcibly thaw every frozen filesystem
+ *
+ * Used for emergency unfreeze of all filesystems via SysRq
+ */
+void emergency_thaw_all(void)
+{
+        pdflush_operation(do_thaw_all, 0);
+}
+
 /**
  * sync_mapping_buffers - write out & wait upon a mapping's "associated" buffers
  * @mapping: the mapping which wants those buffers written