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 --- include/linux/reiserfs_fs_sb.h | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/reiserfs_fs_sb.h') diff --git a/include/linux/reiserfs_fs_sb.h b/include/linux/reiserfs_fs_sb.h index 045c37213675..52c83b6a758a 100644 --- a/include/linux/reiserfs_fs_sb.h +++ b/include/linux/reiserfs_fs_sb.h @@ -417,6 +417,17 @@ struct reiserfs_sb_info { char *s_qf_names[MAXQUOTAS]; int s_jquota_fmt; #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK + + struct tree_balance *cur_tb; /* + * Detects whether more than one + * copy of tb exists per superblock + * as a means of checking whether + * do_balance is executing concurrently + * against another tree reader/writer + * on a same mount point. + */ +#endif }; /* Definitions of reiserfs on-disk properties: */ -- cgit v1.2.3