From 08f14fc8963e585e65b71212ce8050607b9b6c36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 19:10:38 +0200 Subject: kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: move the concurrent tree accesses checks per superblock When do_balance() balances the tree, a trick is performed to provide the ability for other tree writers/readers to check whether do_balance() is executing concurrently (requires CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK). This is done to protect concurrent accesses to the tree. The trick is the following: When do_balance is called, a unique global variable called cur_tb takes a pointer to the current tree to be rebalanced. Once do_balance finishes its work, cur_tb takes the NULL value. Then, concurrent tree readers/writers just have to check the value of cur_tb to ensure do_balance isn't executing concurrently. If it is, then it proves that schedule() occured on do_balance(), which then relaxed the bkl that protected the tree. Now that the bkl has be turned into a mutex, this check is still fine even though do_balance() becomes preemptible: the write lock will not be automatically released on schedule(), so the tree is still protected. But this is only fine if we have a single reiserfs mountpoint. Indeed, because the bkl is a global lock, it didn't allowed concurrent executions between a tree reader/writer in a mount point and a do_balance() on another tree from another mountpoint. So assuming all these readers/writers weren't supposed to be reentrant, the current check now sometimes detect false positives with the current per-superblock mutex which allows this reentrancy. This patch keeps the concurrent tree accesses check but moves it per superblock, so that only trees from a same mount point are checked to be not accessed concurrently. [ Impact: fix spurious panic while running several reiserfs mount-points ] Cc: Jeff Mahoney Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Alexander Beregalov Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker --- fs/reiserfs/prints.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/reiserfs/prints.c') diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/prints.c b/fs/reiserfs/prints.c index 536eacaeb710..adbc6f538515 100644 --- a/fs/reiserfs/prints.c +++ b/fs/reiserfs/prints.c @@ -349,10 +349,6 @@ void reiserfs_debug(struct super_block *s, int level, const char *fmt, ...) . */ -#ifdef CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK -extern struct tree_balance *cur_tb; -#endif - void __reiserfs_panic(struct super_block *sb, const char *id, const char *function, const char *fmt, ...) { -- cgit v1.2.2