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kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: move the concurrent tree accesses checks per superblock

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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 <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-16 19:10:38 +02:00
parent c72e05756b
commit 08f14fc896
5 changed files with 18 additions and 24 deletions
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@@ -222,9 +222,6 @@ static inline int bin_search(const void *key, /* Key to search for. */
return ITEM_NOT_FOUND;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK
extern struct tree_balance *cur_tb;
#endif
/* Minimal possible key. It is never in the tree. */
const struct reiserfs_key MIN_KEY = { 0, 0, {{0, 0},} };
@@ -711,7 +708,7 @@ int search_by_key(struct super_block *sb, const struct cpu_key *key, /* Key to s
!key_in_buffer(search_path, key, sb),
"PAP-5130: key is not in the buffer");
#ifdef CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK
if (cur_tb) {
if (REISERFS_SB(sb)->cur_tb) {
print_cur_tb("5140");
reiserfs_panic(sb, "PAP-5140",
"schedule occurred in do_balance!");