2.6.29-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Jan Kara (cherry picked from commit 86db97c87f744364d5889ca8a4134ca2048b8f83) Update information about locking in JBD2 revoke code. Inconsistency in comments found by Lin Tan CC: Lin Tan Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/jbd2/revoke.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/fs/jbd2/revoke.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/revoke.c @@ -55,6 +55,25 @@ * need do nothing. * RevokeValid set, Revoked set: * buffer has been revoked. + * + * Locking rules: + * We keep two hash tables of revoke records. One hashtable belongs to the + * running transaction (is pointed to by journal->j_revoke), the other one + * belongs to the committing transaction. Accesses to the second hash table + * happen only from the kjournald and no other thread touches this table. Also + * journal_switch_revoke_table() which switches which hashtable belongs to the + * running and which to the committing transaction is called only from + * kjournald. Therefore we need no locks when accessing the hashtable belonging + * to the committing transaction. + * + * All users operating on the hash table belonging to the running transaction + * have a handle to the transaction. Therefore they are safe from kjournald + * switching hash tables under them. For operations on the lists of entries in + * the hash table j_revoke_lock is used. + * + * Finally, also replay code uses the hash tables but at this moment noone else + * can touch them (filesystem isn't mounted yet) and hence no locking is + * needed. */ #ifndef __KERNEL__ @@ -401,8 +420,6 @@ int jbd2_journal_revoke(handle_t *handle * the second time we would still have a pending revoke to cancel. So, * do not trust the Revoked bit on buffers unless RevokeValid is also * set. - * - * The caller must have the journal locked. */ int jbd2_journal_cancel_revoke(handle_t *handle, struct journal_head *jh) { @@ -480,10 +497,7 @@ void jbd2_journal_switch_revoke_table(jo /* * Write revoke records to the journal for all entries in the current * revoke hash, deleting the entries as we go. - * - * Called with the journal lock held. */ - void jbd2_journal_write_revoke_records(journal_t *journal, transaction_t *transaction) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html