summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/fs/ocfs2/dcache.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2009-01-12 23:20:31 +0100
committerMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>2009-02-02 14:20:16 -0800
commitea455f8ab68338ba69f5d3362b342c115bea8e13 (patch)
tree17c052011f821ff5897028a27a1f8cba96046b67 /fs/ocfs2/dcache.c
parent27421e211a39784694b597dbf35848b88363c248 (diff)
downloadlinux-stable-ea455f8ab68338ba69f5d3362b342c115bea8e13.tar.gz
linux-stable-ea455f8ab68338ba69f5d3362b342c115bea8e13.tar.bz2
linux-stable-ea455f8ab68338ba69f5d3362b342c115bea8e13.zip
ocfs2: Push out dropping of dentry lock to ocfs2_wq
Dropping of last reference to dentry lock is a complicated operation involving dropping of reference to inode. This can get complicated and quota code in particular needs to obtain some quota locks which leads to potential deadlock. Thus we defer dropping of inode reference to ocfs2_wq. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ocfs2/dcache.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ocfs2/dcache.c42
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dcache.c b/fs/ocfs2/dcache.c
index b1cc7c381e88..e9d7c2038c0f 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/dcache.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
#include "dlmglue.h"
#include "file.h"
#include "inode.h"
+#include "super.h"
static int ocfs2_dentry_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry,
@@ -294,6 +295,34 @@ out_attach:
return ret;
}
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dentry_list_lock);
+
+/* We limit the number of dentry locks to drop in one go. We have
+ * this limit so that we don't starve other users of ocfs2_wq. */
+#define DL_INODE_DROP_COUNT 64
+
+/* Drop inode references from dentry locks */
+void ocfs2_drop_dl_inodes(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ struct ocfs2_super *osb = container_of(work, struct ocfs2_super,
+ dentry_lock_work);
+ struct ocfs2_dentry_lock *dl;
+ int drop_count = DL_INODE_DROP_COUNT;
+
+ spin_lock(&dentry_list_lock);
+ while (osb->dentry_lock_list && drop_count--) {
+ dl = osb->dentry_lock_list;
+ osb->dentry_lock_list = dl->dl_next;
+ spin_unlock(&dentry_list_lock);
+ iput(dl->dl_inode);
+ kfree(dl);
+ spin_lock(&dentry_list_lock);
+ }
+ if (osb->dentry_lock_list)
+ queue_work(ocfs2_wq, &osb->dentry_lock_work);
+ spin_unlock(&dentry_list_lock);
+}
+
/*
* ocfs2_dentry_iput() and friends.
*
@@ -318,16 +347,23 @@ out_attach:
static void ocfs2_drop_dentry_lock(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
struct ocfs2_dentry_lock *dl)
{
- iput(dl->dl_inode);
ocfs2_simple_drop_lockres(osb, &dl->dl_lockres);
ocfs2_lock_res_free(&dl->dl_lockres);
- kfree(dl);
+
+ /* We leave dropping of inode reference to ocfs2_wq as that can
+ * possibly lead to inode deletion which gets tricky */
+ spin_lock(&dentry_list_lock);
+ if (!osb->dentry_lock_list)
+ queue_work(ocfs2_wq, &osb->dentry_lock_work);
+ dl->dl_next = osb->dentry_lock_list;
+ osb->dentry_lock_list = dl;
+ spin_unlock(&dentry_list_lock);
}
void ocfs2_dentry_lock_put(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
struct ocfs2_dentry_lock *dl)
{
- int unlock = 0;
+ int unlock;
BUG_ON(dl->dl_count == 0);