Re: [PATCH 18/27] xfs: Convert to new freezing code

From: Jan Kara
Date: Tue Jun 12 2012 - 10:32:18 EST


On Tue 12-06-12 10:23:47, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > + * We will pass freeze protection with a transaction. So tell lockdep
> > + * we released it.
> > + */
> > + rwsem_release(&ioend->io_inode->i_sb->s_writers.lock_map[SB_FREEZE_FS-1],
> > + 1, _THIS_IP_);
>
> I'll need some time to get through the whole series, but repeated use
> of constructs like this really screams for a helper abstracting it out
> and documenting it.
It's there twice and only in XFS because XFS needs to pass the freeze
protection (along with a transaction) to a worker thread. I'm not against a
helper but then it should probably be in a form to allow easy
instrumentation of lockdep that we are passing a state of lock together
with a work struct?

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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