linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH, RFC] properly lock group descriptors before initializing

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:03:42 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] properly lock group descriptors before	initializing

On Jul 16, 2008  00:26 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> @@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ read_inode_bitmap(struct super_block *sb
>  	desc = ext4_get_group_desc(sb, block_group, NULL);
>  	if (!desc)
>  		goto error_out;
> +	spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT4_SB(sb), block_group));
>  	if (desc->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT)) {
>  		bh = sb_getblk(sb, ext4_inode_bitmap(sb, desc));
>  		if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) {

sb_getblk() calls __getblk(), which is might_sleep() so is a no-no.

> @@ -119,6 +120,7 @@ read_inode_bitmap(struct super_block *sb
>  	} else {
>  		bh = sb_bread(sb, ext4_inode_bitmap(sb, desc));
>  	}
> +	spin_unlock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT4_SB(sb), block_group));

Likewise "sb_bread" is doing disk access.  I guess you don't have
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP enabled in your kernel.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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