linux/fs/block_dev.c

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[PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint. The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry pointers. For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt() which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour). The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the superblock pointer. This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing. In such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root and mnt_sb would be set directly. The patch also makes the following changes: (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change very little. (*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb(). (*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon(). This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root, and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in dentries being left unculled. However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries with child trees. [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree. (*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation. [akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff] Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 02:02:57 -07:00
[PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint. The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry pointers. For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt() which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour). The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the superblock pointer. This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing. In such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root and mnt_sb would be set directly. The patch also makes the following changes: (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change very little. (*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb(). (*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon(). This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root, and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in dentries being left unculled. However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries with child trees. [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree. (*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation. [akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff] Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 02:02:57 -07:00
[PATCH] blockdev.c: check driver layer errors Check driver layer errors. Fix from: "Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> In blockdevc-check-errors.patch, add_bd_holder() is modified to return error values when some of its operation failed. Among them, it returns -EEXIST when a given bd_holder object already exists in the list. However, in this case, the function completed its work successfully and need no action by its caller other than freeing unused bd_holder object. So I think it's better to return success after freeing by itself. Otherwise, bd_claim-ing with same claim pointer will fail. Typically, lvresize will fails with following message: device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument and you'll see messages like below in kernel log: device-mapper: table: 254:13: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table Similarly, it should not add bd_holder to the list if either one of symlinking fails. I don't have a test case for this to happen but it should cause dereference of freed pointer. If a matching bd_holder is found in bd_holder_list, add_bd_holder() completes its job by just incrementing the reference count. In this case, it should be considered as success but it used to return 'fail' to let the caller free temporary bd_holder. Fixed it to return success and free given object by itself. Also, if either one of symlinking fails, the bd_holder should not be added to the list so that it can be discarded later. Otherwise, the caller will free bd_holder which is in the list. Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 01:58:56 -07:00
[PATCH] blockdev.c: check driver layer errors Check driver layer errors. Fix from: "Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> In blockdevc-check-errors.patch, add_bd_holder() is modified to return error values when some of its operation failed. Among them, it returns -EEXIST when a given bd_holder object already exists in the list. However, in this case, the function completed its work successfully and need no action by its caller other than freeing unused bd_holder object. So I think it's better to return success after freeing by itself. Otherwise, bd_claim-ing with same claim pointer will fail. Typically, lvresize will fails with following message: device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument and you'll see messages like below in kernel log: device-mapper: table: 254:13: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table Similarly, it should not add bd_holder to the list if either one of symlinking fails. I don't have a test case for this to happen but it should cause dereference of freed pointer. If a matching bd_holder is found in bd_holder_list, add_bd_holder() completes its job by just incrementing the reference count. In this case, it should be considered as success but it used to return 'fail' to let the caller free temporary bd_holder. Fixed it to return success and free given object by itself. Also, if either one of symlinking fails, the bd_holder should not be added to the list so that it can be discarded later. Otherwise, the caller will free bd_holder which is in the list. Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 01:58:56 -07:00
[PATCH] blockdev.c: check driver layer errors Check driver layer errors. Fix from: "Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> In blockdevc-check-errors.patch, add_bd_holder() is modified to return error values when some of its operation failed. Among them, it returns -EEXIST when a given bd_holder object already exists in the list. However, in this case, the function completed its work successfully and need no action by its caller other than freeing unused bd_holder object. So I think it's better to return success after freeing by itself. Otherwise, bd_claim-ing with same claim pointer will fail. Typically, lvresize will fails with following message: device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument and you'll see messages like below in kernel log: device-mapper: table: 254:13: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table Similarly, it should not add bd_holder to the list if either one of symlinking fails. I don't have a test case for this to happen but it should cause dereference of freed pointer. If a matching bd_holder is found in bd_holder_list, add_bd_holder() completes its job by just incrementing the reference count. In this case, it should be considered as success but it used to return 'fail' to let the caller free temporary bd_holder. Fixed it to return success and free given object by itself. Also, if either one of symlinking fails, the bd_holder should not be added to the list so that it can be discarded later. Otherwise, the caller will free bd_holder which is in the list. Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 01:58:56 -07:00
[PATCH] blockdev.c: check driver layer errors Check driver layer errors. Fix from: "Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> In blockdevc-check-errors.patch, add_bd_holder() is modified to return error values when some of its operation failed. Among them, it returns -EEXIST when a given bd_holder object already exists in the list. However, in this case, the function completed its work successfully and need no action by its caller other than freeing unused bd_holder object. So I think it's better to return success after freeing by itself. Otherwise, bd_claim-ing with same claim pointer will fail. Typically, lvresize will fails with following message: device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument and you'll see messages like below in kernel log: device-mapper: table: 254:13: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table Similarly, it should not add bd_holder to the list if either one of symlinking fails. I don't have a test case for this to happen but it should cause dereference of freed pointer. If a matching bd_holder is found in bd_holder_list, add_bd_holder() completes its job by just incrementing the reference count. In this case, it should be considered as success but it used to return 'fail' to let the caller free temporary bd_holder. Fixed it to return success and free given object by itself. Also, if either one of symlinking fails, the bd_holder should not be added to the list so that it can be discarded later. Otherwise, the caller will free bd_holder which is in the list. Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 01:58:56 -07:00
[PATCH] blockdev.c: check driver layer errors Check driver layer errors. Fix from: "Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> In blockdevc-check-errors.patch, add_bd_holder() is modified to return error values when some of its operation failed. Among them, it returns -EEXIST when a given bd_holder object already exists in the list. However, in this case, the function completed its work successfully and need no action by its caller other than freeing unused bd_holder object. So I think it's better to return success after freeing by itself. Otherwise, bd_claim-ing with same claim pointer will fail. Typically, lvresize will fails with following message: device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument and you'll see messages like below in kernel log: device-mapper: table: 254:13: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table Similarly, it should not add bd_holder to the list if either one of symlinking fails. I don't have a test case for this to happen but it should cause dereference of freed pointer. If a matching bd_holder is found in bd_holder_list, add_bd_holder() completes its job by just incrementing the reference count. In this case, it should be considered as success but it used to return 'fail' to let the caller free temporary bd_holder. Fixed it to return success and free given object by itself. Also, if either one of symlinking fails, the bd_holder should not be added to the list so that it can be discarded later. Otherwise, the caller will free bd_holder which is in the list. Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 01:58:56 -07:00
[PATCH] lockdep: simplify some aspects of bd_mutex nesting When we open (actually blkdev_get) a partition we need to also open (get) the whole device that holds the partition. The involves some limited recursion. This patch tries to simplify some aspects of this. As well as opening the whole device, we need to increment ->bd_part_count when a partition is opened (this is used by rescan_partitions to avoid a rescan if any partition is active, as that would be confusing). The main change this patch makes is to move the inc/dec of bd_part_count into blkdev_{get,put} for the whole rather than doing it in blkdev_{get,put} for the partition. More specifically, we introduce __blkdev_get and __blkdev_put which do exactly what blkdev_{get,put} did, only with an extra "for_part" argument (blkget_{get,put} then call the __ version with a '0' for the extra argument). If for_part is 1, then the blkdev is being get(put) because a partition is being opened(closed) for the first(last) time, and so bd_part_count should be updated (on success). The particular advantage of pushing this function down is that the bd_mutex lock (which is needed to update bd_part_count) is already held at the lower level. Note that this slightly changes the semantics of bd_part_count. Instead of updating it whenever a partition is opened or released, it is now only updated on the first open or last release. This is an adequate semantic as it is only ever tested for "== 0". Having introduced these functions we remove the current bd_part_count updates from do_open (which is really the body of blkdev_get) and call __blkdev_get(... 1). Similarly in blkget_put we remove the old bd_part_count updates and call __blkget_put(..., 1). This call is moved to the end of __blkdev_put to avoid nested locks of bd_mutex. Finally the mutex_lock on whole->bd_mutex in do_open can be removed. It was only really needed to protect bd_part_count, and that is now managed (and protected) within the recursive call. The observation that bd_part_count is central to the locking issues, and the modifications to create __blkdev_put are from Peter Zijlstra. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 02:36:16 -08:00
md: make devices disappear when they are no longer needed. Currently md devices, once created, never disappear until the module is unloaded. This is essentially because the gendisk holds a reference to the mddev, and the mddev holds a reference to the gendisk, this a circular reference. If we drop the reference from mddev to gendisk, then we need to ensure that the mddev is destroyed when the gendisk is destroyed. However it is not possible to hook into the gendisk destruction process to enable this. So we drop the reference from the gendisk to the mddev and destroy the gendisk when the mddev gets destroyed. However this has a complication. Between the call __blkdev_get->get_gendisk->kobj_lookup->md_probe and the call __blkdev_get->md_open there is no obvious way to hold a reference on the mddev any more, so unless something is done, it will disappear and gendisk will be destroyed prematurely. Also, once we decide to destroy the mddev, there will be an unlockable moment before the gendisk is unlinked (blk_unregister_region) during which a new reference to the gendisk can be created. We need to ensure that this reference can not be used. i.e. the ->open must fail. So: 1/ in md_probe we set a flag in the mddev (hold_active) which indicates that the array should be treated as active, even though there are no references, and no appearance of activity. This is cleared by md_release when the device is closed if it is no longer needed. This ensures that the gendisk will survive between md_probe and md_open. 2/ In md_open we check if the mddev we expect to open matches the gendisk that we did open. If there is a mismatch we return -ERESTARTSYS and modify __blkdev_get to retry from the top in that case. In the -ERESTARTSYS sys case we make sure to wait until the old gendisk (that we succeeded in opening) is really gone so we loop at most once. Some udev configurations will always open an md device when it first appears. If we allow an md device that was just created by an open to disappear on an immediate close, then this can race with such udev configurations and result in an infinite loop the device being opened and closed, then re-open due to the 'ADD' even from the first open, and then close and so on. So we make sure an md device, once created by an open, remains active at least until some md 'ioctl' has been made on it. This means that all normal usage of md devices will allow them to disappear promptly when not needed, but the worst that an incorrect usage will do it cause an inactive md device to be left in existence (it can easily be removed). As an array can be stopped by writing to a sysfs attribute echo clear > /sys/block/mdXXX/md/array_state we need to use scheduled work for deleting the gendisk and other kobjects. This allows us to wait for any pending gendisk deletion to complete by simply calling flush_scheduled_work(). Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-01-09 08:31:10 +11:00
md: make devices disappear when they are no longer needed. Currently md devices, once created, never disappear until the module is unloaded. This is essentially because the gendisk holds a reference to the mddev, and the mddev holds a reference to the gendisk, this a circular reference. If we drop the reference from mddev to gendisk, then we need to ensure that the mddev is destroyed when the gendisk is destroyed. However it is not possible to hook into the gendisk destruction process to enable this. So we drop the reference from the gendisk to the mddev and destroy the gendisk when the mddev gets destroyed. However this has a complication. Between the call __blkdev_get->get_gendisk->kobj_lookup->md_probe and the call __blkdev_get->md_open there is no obvious way to hold a reference on the mddev any more, so unless something is done, it will disappear and gendisk will be destroyed prematurely. Also, once we decide to destroy the mddev, there will be an unlockable moment before the gendisk is unlinked (blk_unregister_region) during which a new reference to the gendisk can be created. We need to ensure that this reference can not be used. i.e. the ->open must fail. So: 1/ in md_probe we set a flag in the mddev (hold_active) which indicates that the array should be treated as active, even though there are no references, and no appearance of activity. This is cleared by md_release when the device is closed if it is no longer needed. This ensures that the gendisk will survive between md_probe and md_open. 2/ In md_open we check if the mddev we expect to open matches the gendisk that we did open. If there is a mismatch we return -ERESTARTSYS and modify __blkdev_get to retry from the top in that case. In the -ERESTARTSYS sys case we make sure to wait until the old gendisk (that we succeeded in opening) is really gone so we loop at most once. Some udev configurations will always open an md device when it first appears. If we allow an md device that was just created by an open to disappear on an immediate close, then this can race with such udev configurations and result in an infinite loop the device being opened and closed, then re-open due to the 'ADD' even from the first open, and then close and so on. So we make sure an md device, once created by an open, remains active at least until some md 'ioctl' has been made on it. This means that all normal usage of md devices will allow them to disappear promptly when not needed, but the worst that an incorrect usage will do it cause an inactive md device to be left in existence (it can easily be removed). As an array can be stopped by writing to a sysfs attribute echo clear > /sys/block/mdXXX/md/array_state we need to use scheduled work for deleting the gendisk and other kobjects. This allows us to wait for any pending gendisk deletion to complete by simply calling flush_scheduled_work(). Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-01-09 08:31:10 +11:00
[PATCH] lockdep: simplify some aspects of bd_mutex nesting When we open (actually blkdev_get) a partition we need to also open (get) the whole device that holds the partition. The involves some limited recursion. This patch tries to simplify some aspects of this. As well as opening the whole device, we need to increment ->bd_part_count when a partition is opened (this is used by rescan_partitions to avoid a rescan if any partition is active, as that would be confusing). The main change this patch makes is to move the inc/dec of bd_part_count into blkdev_{get,put} for the whole rather than doing it in blkdev_{get,put} for the partition. More specifically, we introduce __blkdev_get and __blkdev_put which do exactly what blkdev_{get,put} did, only with an extra "for_part" argument (blkget_{get,put} then call the __ version with a '0' for the extra argument). If for_part is 1, then the blkdev is being get(put) because a partition is being opened(closed) for the first(last) time, and so bd_part_count should be updated (on success). The particular advantage of pushing this function down is that the bd_mutex lock (which is needed to update bd_part_count) is already held at the lower level. Note that this slightly changes the semantics of bd_part_count. Instead of updating it whenever a partition is opened or released, it is now only updated on the first open or last release. This is an adequate semantic as it is only ever tested for "== 0". Having introduced these functions we remove the current bd_part_count updates from do_open (which is really the body of blkdev_get) and call __blkdev_get(... 1). Similarly in blkget_put we remove the old bd_part_count updates and call __blkget_put(..., 1). This call is moved to the end of __blkdev_put to avoid nested locks of bd_mutex. Finally the mutex_lock on whole->bd_mutex in do_open can be removed. It was only really needed to protect bd_part_count, and that is now managed (and protected) within the recursive call. The observation that bd_part_count is central to the locking issues, and the modifications to create __blkdev_put are from Peter Zijlstra. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 02:36:16 -08:00
[PATCH] lockdep: simplify some aspects of bd_mutex nesting When we open (actually blkdev_get) a partition we need to also open (get) the whole device that holds the partition. The involves some limited recursion. This patch tries to simplify some aspects of this. As well as opening the whole device, we need to increment ->bd_part_count when a partition is opened (this is used by rescan_partitions to avoid a rescan if any partition is active, as that would be confusing). The main change this patch makes is to move the inc/dec of bd_part_count into blkdev_{get,put} for the whole rather than doing it in blkdev_{get,put} for the partition. More specifically, we introduce __blkdev_get and __blkdev_put which do exactly what blkdev_{get,put} did, only with an extra "for_part" argument (blkget_{get,put} then call the __ version with a '0' for the extra argument). If for_part is 1, then the blkdev is being get(put) because a partition is being opened(closed) for the first(last) time, and so bd_part_count should be updated (on success). The particular advantage of pushing this function down is that the bd_mutex lock (which is needed to update bd_part_count) is already held at the lower level. Note that this slightly changes the semantics of bd_part_count. Instead of updating it whenever a partition is opened or released, it is now only updated on the first open or last release. This is an adequate semantic as it is only ever tested for "== 0". Having introduced these functions we remove the current bd_part_count updates from do_open (which is really the body of blkdev_get) and call __blkdev_get(... 1). Similarly in blkget_put we remove the old bd_part_count updates and call __blkget_put(..., 1). This call is moved to the end of __blkdev_put to avoid nested locks of bd_mutex. Finally the mutex_lock on whole->bd_mutex in do_open can be removed. It was only really needed to protect bd_part_count, and that is now managed (and protected) within the recursive call. The observation that bd_part_count is central to the locking issues, and the modifications to create __blkdev_put are from Peter Zijlstra. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 02:36:16 -08:00
[PATCH] lockdep: simplify some aspects of bd_mutex nesting When we open (actually blkdev_get) a partition we need to also open (get) the whole device that holds the partition. The involves some limited recursion. This patch tries to simplify some aspects of this. As well as opening the whole device, we need to increment ->bd_part_count when a partition is opened (this is used by rescan_partitions to avoid a rescan if any partition is active, as that would be confusing). The main change this patch makes is to move the inc/dec of bd_part_count into blkdev_{get,put} for the whole rather than doing it in blkdev_{get,put} for the partition. More specifically, we introduce __blkdev_get and __blkdev_put which do exactly what blkdev_{get,put} did, only with an extra "for_part" argument (blkget_{get,put} then call the __ version with a '0' for the extra argument). If for_part is 1, then the blkdev is being get(put) because a partition is being opened(closed) for the first(last) time, and so bd_part_count should be updated (on success). The particular advantage of pushing this function down is that the bd_mutex lock (which is needed to update bd_part_count) is already held at the lower level. Note that this slightly changes the semantics of bd_part_count. Instead of updating it whenever a partition is opened or released, it is now only updated on the first open or last release. This is an adequate semantic as it is only ever tested for "== 0". Having introduced these functions we remove the current bd_part_count updates from do_open (which is really the body of blkdev_get) and call __blkdev_get(... 1). Similarly in blkget_put we remove the old bd_part_count updates and call __blkget_put(..., 1). This call is moved to the end of __blkdev_put to avoid nested locks of bd_mutex. Finally the mutex_lock on whole->bd_mutex in do_open can be removed. It was only really needed to protect bd_part_count, and that is now managed (and protected) within the recursive call. The observation that bd_part_count is central to the locking issues, and the modifications to create __blkdev_put are from Peter Zijlstra. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 02:36:16 -08:00
[PATCH] lockdep: simplify some aspects of bd_mutex nesting When we open (actually blkdev_get) a partition we need to also open (get) the whole device that holds the partition. The involves some limited recursion. This patch tries to simplify some aspects of this. As well as opening the whole device, we need to increment ->bd_part_count when a partition is opened (this is used by rescan_partitions to avoid a rescan if any partition is active, as that would be confusing). The main change this patch makes is to move the inc/dec of bd_part_count into blkdev_{get,put} for the whole rather than doing it in blkdev_{get,put} for the partition. More specifically, we introduce __blkdev_get and __blkdev_put which do exactly what blkdev_{get,put} did, only with an extra "for_part" argument (blkget_{get,put} then call the __ version with a '0' for the extra argument). If for_part is 1, then the blkdev is being get(put) because a partition is being opened(closed) for the first(last) time, and so bd_part_count should be updated (on success). The particular advantage of pushing this function down is that the bd_mutex lock (which is needed to update bd_part_count) is already held at the lower level. Note that this slightly changes the semantics of bd_part_count. Instead of updating it whenever a partition is opened or released, it is now only updated on the first open or last release. This is an adequate semantic as it is only ever tested for "== 0". Having introduced these functions we remove the current bd_part_count updates from do_open (which is really the body of blkdev_get) and call __blkdev_get(... 1). Similarly in blkget_put we remove the old bd_part_count updates and call __blkget_put(..., 1). This call is moved to the end of __blkdev_put to avoid nested locks of bd_mutex. Finally the mutex_lock on whole->bd_mutex in do_open can be removed. It was only really needed to protect bd_part_count, and that is now managed (and protected) within the recursive call. The observation that bd_part_count is central to the locking issues, and the modifications to create __blkdev_put are from Peter Zijlstra. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 02:36:16 -08:00
[PATCH] lockdep: simplify some aspects of bd_mutex nesting When we open (actually blkdev_get) a partition we need to also open (get) the whole device that holds the partition. The involves some limited recursion. This patch tries to simplify some aspects of this. As well as opening the whole device, we need to increment ->bd_part_count when a partition is opened (this is used by rescan_partitions to avoid a rescan if any partition is active, as that would be confusing). The main change this patch makes is to move the inc/dec of bd_part_count into blkdev_{get,put} for the whole rather than doing it in blkdev_{get,put} for the partition. More specifically, we introduce __blkdev_get and __blkdev_put which do exactly what blkdev_{get,put} did, only with an extra "for_part" argument (blkget_{get,put} then call the __ version with a '0' for the extra argument). If for_part is 1, then the blkdev is being get(put) because a partition is being opened(closed) for the first(last) time, and so bd_part_count should be updated (on success). The particular advantage of pushing this function down is that the bd_mutex lock (which is needed to update bd_part_count) is already held at the lower level. Note that this slightly changes the semantics of bd_part_count. Instead of updating it whenever a partition is opened or released, it is now only updated on the first open or last release. This is an adequate semantic as it is only ever tested for "== 0". Having introduced these functions we remove the current bd_part_count updates from do_open (which is really the body of blkdev_get) and call __blkdev_get(... 1). Similarly in blkget_put we remove the old bd_part_count updates and call __blkget_put(..., 1). This call is moved to the end of __blkdev_put to avoid nested locks of bd_mutex. Finally the mutex_lock on whole->bd_mutex in do_open can be removed. It was only really needed to protect bd_part_count, and that is now managed (and protected) within the recursive call. The observation that bd_part_count is central to the locking issues, and the modifications to create __blkdev_put are from Peter Zijlstra. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 02:36:16 -08:00
[PATCH] lockdep: simplify some aspects of bd_mutex nesting When we open (actually blkdev_get) a partition we need to also open (get) the whole device that holds the partition. The involves some limited recursion. This patch tries to simplify some aspects of this. As well as opening the whole device, we need to increment ->bd_part_count when a partition is opened (this is used by rescan_partitions to avoid a rescan if any partition is active, as that would be confusing). The main change this patch makes is to move the inc/dec of bd_part_count into blkdev_{get,put} for the whole rather than doing it in blkdev_{get,put} for the partition. More specifically, we introduce __blkdev_get and __blkdev_put which do exactly what blkdev_{get,put} did, only with an extra "for_part" argument (blkget_{get,put} then call the __ version with a '0' for the extra argument). If for_part is 1, then the blkdev is being get(put) because a partition is being opened(closed) for the first(last) time, and so bd_part_count should be updated (on success). The particular advantage of pushing this function down is that the bd_mutex lock (which is needed to update bd_part_count) is already held at the lower level. Note that this slightly changes the semantics of bd_part_count. Instead of updating it whenever a partition is opened or released, it is now only updated on the first open or last release. This is an adequate semantic as it is only ever tested for "== 0". Having introduced these functions we remove the current bd_part_count updates from do_open (which is really the body of blkdev_get) and call __blkdev_get(... 1). Similarly in blkget_put we remove the old bd_part_count updates and call __blkget_put(..., 1). This call is moved to the end of __blkdev_put to avoid nested locks of bd_mutex. Finally the mutex_lock on whole->bd_mutex in do_open can be removed. It was only really needed to protect bd_part_count, and that is now managed (and protected) within the recursive call. The observation that bd_part_count is central to the locking issues, and the modifications to create __blkdev_put are from Peter Zijlstra. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 02:36:16 -08:00
[PATCH] lockdep: simplify some aspects of bd_mutex nesting When we open (actually blkdev_get) a partition we need to also open (get) the whole device that holds the partition. The involves some limited recursion. This patch tries to simplify some aspects of this. As well as opening the whole device, we need to increment ->bd_part_count when a partition is opened (this is used by rescan_partitions to avoid a rescan if any partition is active, as that would be confusing). The main change this patch makes is to move the inc/dec of bd_part_count into blkdev_{get,put} for the whole rather than doing it in blkdev_{get,put} for the partition. More specifically, we introduce __blkdev_get and __blkdev_put which do exactly what blkdev_{get,put} did, only with an extra "for_part" argument (blkget_{get,put} then call the __ version with a '0' for the extra argument). If for_part is 1, then the blkdev is being get(put) because a partition is being opened(closed) for the first(last) time, and so bd_part_count should be updated (on success). The particular advantage of pushing this function down is that the bd_mutex lock (which is needed to update bd_part_count) is already held at the lower level. Note that this slightly changes the semantics of bd_part_count. Instead of updating it whenever a partition is opened or released, it is now only updated on the first open or last release. This is an adequate semantic as it is only ever tested for "== 0". Having introduced these functions we remove the current bd_part_count updates from do_open (which is really the body of blkdev_get) and call __blkdev_get(... 1). Similarly in blkget_put we remove the old bd_part_count updates and call __blkget_put(..., 1). This call is moved to the end of __blkdev_put to avoid nested locks of bd_mutex. Finally the mutex_lock on whole->bd_mutex in do_open can be removed. It was only really needed to protect bd_part_count, and that is now managed (and protected) within the recursive call. The observation that bd_part_count is central to the locking issues, and the modifications to create __blkdev_put are from Peter Zijlstra. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 02:36:16 -08:00
[PATCH] lockdep: simplify some aspects of bd_mutex nesting When we open (actually blkdev_get) a partition we need to also open (get) the whole device that holds the partition. The involves some limited recursion. This patch tries to simplify some aspects of this. As well as opening the whole device, we need to increment ->bd_part_count when a partition is opened (this is used by rescan_partitions to avoid a rescan if any partition is active, as that would be confusing). The main change this patch makes is to move the inc/dec of bd_part_count into blkdev_{get,put} for the whole rather than doing it in blkdev_{get,put} for the partition. More specifically, we introduce __blkdev_get and __blkdev_put which do exactly what blkdev_{get,put} did, only with an extra "for_part" argument (blkget_{get,put} then call the __ version with a '0' for the extra argument). If for_part is 1, then the blkdev is being get(put) because a partition is being opened(closed) for the first(last) time, and so bd_part_count should be updated (on success). The particular advantage of pushing this function down is that the bd_mutex lock (which is needed to update bd_part_count) is already held at the lower level. Note that this slightly changes the semantics of bd_part_count. Instead of updating it whenever a partition is opened or released, it is now only updated on the first open or last release. This is an adequate semantic as it is only ever tested for "== 0". Having introduced these functions we remove the current bd_part_count updates from do_open (which is really the body of blkdev_get) and call __blkdev_get(... 1). Similarly in blkget_put we remove the old bd_part_count updates and call __blkget_put(..., 1). This call is moved to the end of __blkdev_put to avoid nested locks of bd_mutex. Finally the mutex_lock on whole->bd_mutex in do_open can be removed. It was only really needed to protect bd_part_count, and that is now managed (and protected) within the recursive call. The observation that bd_part_count is central to the locking issues, and the modifications to create __blkdev_put are from Peter Zijlstra. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 02:36:16 -08:00
[PATCH] lockdep: simplify some aspects of bd_mutex nesting When we open (actually blkdev_get) a partition we need to also open (get) the whole device that holds the partition. The involves some limited recursion. This patch tries to simplify some aspects of this. As well as opening the whole device, we need to increment ->bd_part_count when a partition is opened (this is used by rescan_partitions to avoid a rescan if any partition is active, as that would be confusing). The main change this patch makes is to move the inc/dec of bd_part_count into blkdev_{get,put} for the whole rather than doing it in blkdev_{get,put} for the partition. More specifically, we introduce __blkdev_get and __blkdev_put which do exactly what blkdev_{get,put} did, only with an extra "for_part" argument (blkget_{get,put} then call the __ version with a '0' for the extra argument). If for_part is 1, then the blkdev is being get(put) because a partition is being opened(closed) for the first(last) time, and so bd_part_count should be updated (on success). The particular advantage of pushing this function down is that the bd_mutex lock (which is needed to update bd_part_count) is already held at the lower level. Note that this slightly changes the semantics of bd_part_count. Instead of updating it whenever a partition is opened or released, it is now only updated on the first open or last release. This is an adequate semantic as it is only ever tested for "== 0". Having introduced these functions we remove the current bd_part_count updates from do_open (which is really the body of blkdev_get) and call __blkdev_get(... 1). Similarly in blkget_put we remove the old bd_part_count updates and call __blkget_put(..., 1). This call is moved to the end of __blkdev_put to avoid nested locks of bd_mutex. Finally the mutex_lock on whole->bd_mutex in do_open can be removed. It was only really needed to protect bd_part_count, and that is now managed (and protected) within the recursive call. The observation that bd_part_count is central to the locking issues, and the modifications to create __blkdev_put are from Peter Zijlstra. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 02:36:16 -08:00