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-rw-r--r--fs/jbd/journal.c1
-rw-r--r--fs/jbd/transaction.c38
-rw-r--r--include/linux/jbd.h4
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jbd/journal.c b/fs/jbd/journal.c
index fea8dd661d2b..1656dc2e6a08 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/journal.c
@@ -721,7 +721,6 @@ static journal_t * journal_init_common (void)
init_waitqueue_head(&journal->j_wait_checkpoint);
init_waitqueue_head(&journal->j_wait_commit);
init_waitqueue_head(&journal->j_wait_updates);
- mutex_init(&journal->j_barrier);
mutex_init(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
spin_lock_init(&journal->j_revoke_lock);
spin_lock_init(&journal->j_list_lock);
diff --git a/fs/jbd/transaction.c b/fs/jbd/transaction.c
index 7e59c6e66f9b..7fce94b04bc3 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/transaction.c
@@ -426,17 +426,34 @@ int journal_restart(handle_t *handle, int nblocks)
* void journal_lock_updates () - establish a transaction barrier.
* @journal: Journal to establish a barrier on.
*
- * This locks out any further updates from being started, and blocks
- * until all existing updates have completed, returning only once the
- * journal is in a quiescent state with no updates running.
- *
- * The journal lock should not be held on entry.
+ * This locks out any further updates from being started, and blocks until all
+ * existing updates have completed, returning only once the journal is in a
+ * quiescent state with no updates running.
+ *
+ * We do not use simple mutex for synchronization as there are syscalls which
+ * want to return with filesystem locked and that trips up lockdep. Also
+ * hibernate needs to lock filesystem but locked mutex then blocks hibernation.
+ * Since locking filesystem is rare operation, we use simple counter and
+ * waitqueue for locking.
*/
void journal_lock_updates(journal_t *journal)
{
DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
+wait:
+ /* Wait for previous locked operation to finish */
+ wait_event(journal->j_wait_transaction_locked,
+ journal->j_barrier_count == 0);
+
spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+ /*
+ * Check reliably under the lock whether we are the ones winning the race
+ * and locking the journal
+ */
+ if (journal->j_barrier_count > 0) {
+ spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+ goto wait;
+ }
++journal->j_barrier_count;
/* Wait until there are no running updates */
@@ -460,14 +477,6 @@ void journal_lock_updates(journal_t *journal)
spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
}
spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
-
- /*
- * We have now established a barrier against other normal updates, but
- * we also need to barrier against other journal_lock_updates() calls
- * to make sure that we serialise special journal-locked operations
- * too.
- */
- mutex_lock(&journal->j_barrier);
}
/**
@@ -475,14 +484,11 @@ void journal_lock_updates(journal_t *journal)
* @journal: Journal to release the barrier on.
*
* Release a transaction barrier obtained with journal_lock_updates().
- *
- * Should be called without the journal lock held.
*/
void journal_unlock_updates (journal_t *journal)
{
J_ASSERT(journal->j_barrier_count != 0);
- mutex_unlock(&journal->j_barrier);
spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
--journal->j_barrier_count;
spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
diff --git a/include/linux/jbd.h b/include/linux/jbd.h
index 492cc12244fd..d211732b9e99 100644
--- a/include/linux/jbd.h
+++ b/include/linux/jbd.h
@@ -497,7 +497,6 @@ struct transaction_s
* @j_format_version: Version of the superblock format
* @j_state_lock: Protect the various scalars in the journal
* @j_barrier_count: Number of processes waiting to create a barrier lock
- * @j_barrier: The barrier lock itself
* @j_running_transaction: The current running transaction..
* @j_committing_transaction: the transaction we are pushing to disk
* @j_checkpoint_transactions: a linked circular list of all transactions
@@ -580,9 +579,6 @@ struct journal_s
*/
int j_barrier_count;
- /* The barrier lock itself */
- struct mutex j_barrier;
-
/*
* Transactions: The current running transaction...
* [j_state_lock] [caller holding open handle]