Re: [PATCH V4 09/13] fs/xfs: Add write aops lock to xfs layer

[Ira Weiny]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 11:34:55AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 04:41:30PM -0800, ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 

[snip]

> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
> > index 35df324875db..5b014c428f0f 100644
> > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
> > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
> > @@ -142,12 +142,12 @@ xfs_ilock_attr_map_shared(
> >   *
> >   * Basic locking order:
> >   *
> > - * i_rwsem -> i_mmap_lock -> page_lock -> i_ilock
> > + * s_dax_sem -> i_rwsem -> i_mmap_lock -> page_lock -> i_ilock
> >   *
> >   * mmap_sem locking order:
> >   *
> >   * i_rwsem -> page lock -> mmap_sem
> > - * mmap_sem -> i_mmap_lock -> page_lock
> > + * s_dax_sem -> mmap_sem -> i_mmap_lock -> page_lock
> >   *
> >   * The difference in mmap_sem locking order mean that we cannot hold the
> >   * i_mmap_lock over syscall based read(2)/write(2) based IO. These IO paths can
> > @@ -182,6 +182,9 @@ xfs_ilock(
> >  	       (XFS_ILOCK_SHARED | XFS_ILOCK_EXCL));
> >  	ASSERT((lock_flags & ~(XFS_LOCK_MASK | XFS_LOCK_SUBCLASS_MASK)) == 0);
> >  
> > +	if (lock_flags & XFS_DAX_EXCL)
> > +		inode_aops_down_write(VFS_I(ip));
> 
> I largely don't see the point of adding this to xfs_ilock/iunlock.
> 
> It's only got one caller, so I don't see much point in adding it to
> an interface that has over a hundred other call sites that don't
> need or use this lock. just open code it where it is needed in the
> ioctl code.

I know it seems overkill but if we don't do this we need to code a flag to be
returned from xfs_ioctl_setattr_dax_invalidate().  This flag is then used in
xfs_ioctl_setattr_get_trans() to create the transaction log item which can then
be properly used to unlock the lock in xfs_inode_item_release()

I don't know of a cleaner way to communicate to xfs_inode_item_release() to
unlock i_aops_sem after the transaction is complete.

Ira

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> -- 
> Dave Chinner
> david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx