From 32433879480d13bc019d5a067ce884064a93dd63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:40:06 -0700 Subject: jbd: update locking coments Update information about locking in JBD revoke code. Reported-by: Lin Tan . Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/jbd/revoke.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/jbd') diff --git a/fs/jbd/revoke.c b/fs/jbd/revoke.c index c7bd649bbbdc..3e9afc2a91d2 100644 --- a/fs/jbd/revoke.c +++ b/fs/jbd/revoke.c @@ -55,6 +55,25 @@ * need do nothing. * RevokeValid set, Revoked set: * buffer has been revoked. + * + * Locking rules: + * We keep two hash tables of revoke records. One hashtable belongs to the + * running transaction (is pointed to by journal->j_revoke), the other one + * belongs to the committing transaction. Accesses to the second hash table + * happen only from the kjournald and no other thread touches this table. Also + * journal_switch_revoke_table() which switches which hashtable belongs to the + * running and which to the committing transaction is called only from + * kjournald. Therefore we need no locks when accessing the hashtable belonging + * to the committing transaction. + * + * All users operating on the hash table belonging to the running transaction + * have a handle to the transaction. Therefore they are safe from kjournald + * switching hash tables under them. For operations on the lists of entries in + * the hash table j_revoke_lock is used. + * + * Finally, also replay code uses the hash tables but at this moment noone else + * can touch them (filesystem isn't mounted yet) and hence no locking is + * needed. */ #ifndef __KERNEL__ @@ -402,8 +421,6 @@ int journal_revoke(handle_t *handle, unsigned long blocknr, * the second time we would still have a pending revoke to cancel. So, * do not trust the Revoked bit on buffers unless RevokeValid is also * set. - * - * The caller must have the journal locked. */ int journal_cancel_revoke(handle_t *handle, struct journal_head *jh) { @@ -481,10 +498,7 @@ void journal_switch_revoke_table(journal_t *journal) /* * Write revoke records to the journal for all entries in the current * revoke hash, deleting the entries as we go. - * - * Called with the journal lock held. */ - void journal_write_revoke_records(journal_t *journal, transaction_t *transaction) { -- cgit v1.2.2 From 38d726d153cfe5efe5fe22d28d36ab382dda3a5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:10:47 -0400 Subject: jbd: use SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG when writing synchronous revoke records The revoke records must be written using the same way as the rest of the blocks during the commit process; that is, either marked as synchronous writes or as asynchornous writes. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- fs/jbd/commit.c | 2 +- fs/jbd/revoke.c | 20 +++++++++++--------- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/jbd') diff --git a/fs/jbd/commit.c b/fs/jbd/commit.c index a8e8513a78a9..06560c520f49 100644 --- a/fs/jbd/commit.c +++ b/fs/jbd/commit.c @@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ void journal_commit_transaction(journal_t *journal) err = 0; } - journal_write_revoke_records(journal, commit_transaction); + journal_write_revoke_records(journal, commit_transaction, write_op); /* * If we found any dirty or locked buffers, then we should have diff --git a/fs/jbd/revoke.c b/fs/jbd/revoke.c index c7bd649bbbdc..1b1a06e1c836 100644 --- a/fs/jbd/revoke.c +++ b/fs/jbd/revoke.c @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #endif #include @@ -99,8 +100,8 @@ struct jbd_revoke_table_s #ifdef __KERNEL__ static void write_one_revoke_record(journal_t *, transaction_t *, struct journal_head **, int *, - struct jbd_revoke_record_s *); -static void flush_descriptor(journal_t *, struct journal_head *, int); + struct jbd_revoke_record_s *, int); +static void flush_descriptor(journal_t *, struct journal_head *, int, int); #endif /* Utility functions to maintain the revoke table */ @@ -486,7 +487,7 @@ void journal_switch_revoke_table(journal_t *journal) */ void journal_write_revoke_records(journal_t *journal, - transaction_t *transaction) + transaction_t *transaction, int write_op) { struct journal_head *descriptor; struct jbd_revoke_record_s *record; @@ -510,14 +511,14 @@ void journal_write_revoke_records(journal_t *journal, hash_list->next; write_one_revoke_record(journal, transaction, &descriptor, &offset, - record); + record, write_op); count++; list_del(&record->hash); kmem_cache_free(revoke_record_cache, record); } } if (descriptor) - flush_descriptor(journal, descriptor, offset); + flush_descriptor(journal, descriptor, offset, write_op); jbd_debug(1, "Wrote %d revoke records\n", count); } @@ -530,7 +531,8 @@ static void write_one_revoke_record(journal_t *journal, transaction_t *transaction, struct journal_head **descriptorp, int *offsetp, - struct jbd_revoke_record_s *record) + struct jbd_revoke_record_s *record, + int write_op) { struct journal_head *descriptor; int offset; @@ -549,7 +551,7 @@ static void write_one_revoke_record(journal_t *journal, /* Make sure we have a descriptor with space left for the record */ if (descriptor) { if (offset == journal->j_blocksize) { - flush_descriptor(journal, descriptor, offset); + flush_descriptor(journal, descriptor, offset, write_op); descriptor = NULL; } } @@ -586,7 +588,7 @@ static void write_one_revoke_record(journal_t *journal, static void flush_descriptor(journal_t *journal, struct journal_head *descriptor, - int offset) + int offset, int write_op) { journal_revoke_header_t *header; struct buffer_head *bh = jh2bh(descriptor); @@ -601,7 +603,7 @@ static void flush_descriptor(journal_t *journal, set_buffer_jwrite(bh); BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "write"); set_buffer_dirty(bh); - ll_rw_block(SWRITE, 1, &bh); + ll_rw_block((write_op == WRITE) ? SWRITE : SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG, 1, &bh); } #endif -- cgit v1.2.2