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authorMark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>2006-10-17 12:31:38 +0400
committerJens Axboe <axboe@nelson.home.kernel.dk>2006-10-19 22:53:08 +0400
commit62752ee198dca9209b7dee504763e51b11e9e0ca (patch)
tree5e340a4c690851dadc3a8aa395e4c0d14b4837eb /fs/inode.c
parentce9e3d9953c8cb67001719b5516da2928e956be4 (diff)
downloadlinux-62752ee198dca9209b7dee504763e51b11e9e0ca.tar.xz
[PATCH] Take i_mutex in splice_from_pipe()
The splice_actor may be calling ->prepare_write() and ->commit_write(). We want i_mutex on the inode being written to before calling those so that we don't race i_size changes. The double locking behavior is done elsewhere in splice.c, and if we eventually want _nolock variants of generic_file_splice_write(), fs modules might have to replicate the nasty locking code. We introduce inode_double_lock() and inode_double_unlock() to consolidate the locking rules into one set of functions. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index d9a21d122926..26cdb115ce67 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -1306,6 +1306,42 @@ void wake_up_inode(struct inode *inode)
wake_up_bit(&inode->i_state, __I_LOCK);
}
+/*
+ * We rarely want to lock two inodes that do not have a parent/child
+ * relationship (such as directory, child inode) simultaneously. The
+ * vast majority of file systems should be able to get along fine
+ * without this. Do not use these functions except as a last resort.
+ */
+void inode_double_lock(struct inode *inode1, struct inode *inode2)
+{
+ if (inode1 == NULL || inode2 == NULL || inode1 == inode2) {
+ if (inode1)
+ mutex_lock(&inode1->i_mutex);
+ else if (inode2)
+ mutex_lock(&inode2->i_mutex);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ if (inode1 < inode2) {
+ mutex_lock_nested(&inode1->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
+ mutex_lock_nested(&inode2->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_CHILD);
+ } else {
+ mutex_lock_nested(&inode2->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
+ mutex_lock_nested(&inode1->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_CHILD);
+ }
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_double_lock);
+
+void inode_double_unlock(struct inode *inode1, struct inode *inode2)
+{
+ if (inode1)
+ mutex_unlock(&inode1->i_mutex);
+
+ if (inode2 && inode2 != inode1)
+ mutex_unlock(&inode2->i_mutex);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_double_unlock);
+
static __initdata unsigned long ihash_entries;
static int __init set_ihash_entries(char *str)
{