nilfs2: use semaphore to protect pointer to a writable FS-instance

will get rid of nilfs_get_writer() and nilfs_put_writer() pair used to
retain a writable FS-instance for a period.

The pair functions were making up some kind of recursive lock with a
mutex, but they became overkill since the commit
201913ed746c7724a40d33ee5a0b6a1fd2ef3193.  Furthermore, they caused
the following lockdep warning because the mutex can be released by a
task which didn't lock it:

 =====================================
 [ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ]
 -------------------------------------
 kswapd0/422 is trying to release lock (&nilfs->ns_writer_mutex) at:
 [<c1359ff5>] mutex_unlock+0x8/0xa
 but there are no more locks to release!

 other info that might help us debug this:
 no locks held by kswapd0/422.

 stack backtrace:
 Pid: 422, comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 2.6.31-rc4-nilfs #51
 Call Trace:
  [<c1358f97>] ? printk+0xf/0x18
  [<c104fea7>] print_unlock_inbalance_bug+0xcc/0xd7
  [<c11578de>] ? prop_put_global+0x3/0x35
  [<c1050195>] lock_release+0xed/0x1dc
  [<c1359ff5>] ? mutex_unlock+0x8/0xa
  [<c1359f83>] __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0xaf/0x119
  [<c1359ff5>] mutex_unlock+0x8/0xa
  [<d1284add>] nilfs_mdt_write_page+0xd8/0xe1 [nilfs2]
  [<c1092653>] shrink_page_list+0x379/0x68d
  [<c109171b>] ? isolate_pages_global+0xb4/0x18c
  [<c1092bd2>] shrink_list+0x26b/0x54b
  [<c10930be>] shrink_zone+0x20c/0x2a2
  [<c10936b7>] kswapd+0x407/0x591
  [<c1091667>] ? isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x18c
  [<c1040603>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x33
  [<c10932b0>] ? kswapd+0x0/0x591
  [<c104033b>] kthread+0x69/0x6e
  [<c10402d2>] ? kthread+0x0/0x6e
  [<c1003e33>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x1a

This patch uses a reader/writer semaphore instead of the own lock and
kills this warning.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.h b/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.h
index 1b9caafb8662..fa3a1dfe4053 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.h
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.h
@@ -50,8 +50,7 @@ enum {
  * @ns_sem: semaphore for shared states
  * @ns_super_sem: semaphore for global operations across super block instances
  * @ns_mount_mutex: mutex protecting mount process of nilfs
- * @ns_writer_mutex: mutex protecting ns_writer attach/detach
- * @ns_writer_refcount: number of referrers on ns_writer
+ * @ns_writer_sem: semaphore protecting ns_writer attach/detach
  * @ns_current: back pointer to current mount
  * @ns_sbh: buffer heads of on-disk super blocks
  * @ns_sbp: pointers to super block data
@@ -100,8 +99,7 @@ struct the_nilfs {
         struct rw_semaphore     ns_sem;
         struct rw_semaphore     ns_super_sem;
         struct mutex            ns_mount_mutex;
-        struct mutex            ns_writer_mutex;
-        atomic_t                ns_writer_refcount;
+        struct rw_semaphore     ns_writer_sem;
 
         /*
          * components protected by ns_super_sem
@@ -221,34 +219,21 @@ static inline void get_nilfs(struct the_nilfs *nilfs)
         atomic_inc(&nilfs->ns_count);
 }
 
-static inline struct nilfs_sb_info *nilfs_get_writer(struct the_nilfs *nilfs)
-{
-        if (atomic_inc_and_test(&nilfs->ns_writer_refcount))
-                mutex_lock(&nilfs->ns_writer_mutex);
-        return nilfs->ns_writer;
-}
-
-static inline void nilfs_put_writer(struct the_nilfs *nilfs)
-{
-        if (atomic_add_negative(-1, &nilfs->ns_writer_refcount))
-                mutex_unlock(&nilfs->ns_writer_mutex);
-}
-
 static inline void
 nilfs_attach_writer(struct the_nilfs *nilfs, struct nilfs_sb_info *sbi)
 {
-        mutex_lock(&nilfs->ns_writer_mutex);
+        down_write(&nilfs->ns_writer_sem);
         nilfs->ns_writer = sbi;
-        mutex_unlock(&nilfs->ns_writer_mutex);
+        up_write(&nilfs->ns_writer_sem);
 }
 
 static inline void
 nilfs_detach_writer(struct the_nilfs *nilfs, struct nilfs_sb_info *sbi)
 {
-        mutex_lock(&nilfs->ns_writer_mutex);
+        down_write(&nilfs->ns_writer_sem);
         if (sbi == nilfs->ns_writer)
                 nilfs->ns_writer = NULL;
-        mutex_unlock(&nilfs->ns_writer_mutex);
+        up_write(&nilfs->ns_writer_sem);
 }
 
 static inline void nilfs_put_sbinfo(struct nilfs_sb_info *sbi)