Add a new rw_semaphore to protect page_mkwrite against truncate. Previous i_alloc_sem was abused for this, but it's going away in this series. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/inode.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext4/inode.c 2011-06-20 14:25:33.779248128 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/ext4/inode.c 2011-06-20 14:27:53.025907745 +0200 @@ -5357,6 +5357,7 @@ int ext4_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, if (attr->ia_size > sbi->s_bitmap_maxbytes) return -EFBIG; } + down_write(&(EXT4_I(inode)->truncate_lock)); } if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && @@ -5405,6 +5406,9 @@ int ext4_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, ext4_truncate(inode); } + if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) + up_write(&(EXT4_I(inode)->truncate_lock)); + if (!rc) { setattr_copy(inode, attr); mark_inode_dirty(inode); @@ -5850,10 +5854,10 @@ int ext4_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_str struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping; /* - * Get i_alloc_sem to stop truncates messing with the inode. We cannot - * get i_mutex because we are already holding mmap_sem. + * Get truncate_lock to stop truncates messing with the inode. We + * cannot get i_mutex because we are already holding mmap_sem. */ - down_read(&inode->i_alloc_sem); + down_read(&(EXT4_I(inode)->truncate_lock)); size = i_size_read(inode); if (page->mapping != mapping || size <= page_offset(page) || !PageUptodate(page)) { @@ -5865,7 +5869,7 @@ int ext4_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_str lock_page(page); wait_on_page_writeback(page); if (PageMappedToDisk(page)) { - up_read(&inode->i_alloc_sem); + up_read(&(EXT4_I(inode)->truncate_lock)); return VM_FAULT_LOCKED; } @@ -5883,7 +5887,7 @@ int ext4_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_str if (page_has_buffers(page)) { if (!walk_page_buffers(NULL, page_buffers(page), 0, len, NULL, ext4_bh_unmapped)) { - up_read(&inode->i_alloc_sem); + up_read(&(EXT4_I(inode)->truncate_lock)); return VM_FAULT_LOCKED; } } @@ -5912,11 +5916,11 @@ int ext4_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_str */ lock_page(page); wait_on_page_writeback(page); - up_read(&inode->i_alloc_sem); + up_read(&(EXT4_I(inode)->truncate_lock)); return VM_FAULT_LOCKED; out_unlock: if (ret) ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS; - up_read(&inode->i_alloc_sem); + up_read(&(EXT4_I(inode)->truncate_lock)); return ret; } Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/super.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext4/super.c 2011-06-20 14:25:33.795914793 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/ext4/super.c 2011-06-20 14:27:06.269243443 +0200 @@ -871,6 +871,7 @@ static struct inode *ext4_alloc_inode(st ei->i_datasync_tid = 0; atomic_set(&ei->i_ioend_count, 0); atomic_set(&ei->i_aiodio_unwritten, 0); + init_rwsem(&ei->truncate_lock); return &ei->vfs_inode; } Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/ext4.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext4/ext4.h 2011-06-20 14:25:33.752581461 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/ext4/ext4.h 2011-06-20 14:27:06.272576777 +0200 @@ -844,6 +844,9 @@ struct ext4_inode_info { /* on-disk additional length */ __u16 i_extra_isize; + /* protect page_mkwrite against truncates */ + struct rw_semaphore truncate_lock; + #ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA /* quota space reservation, managed internally by quota code */ qsize_t i_reserved_quota; -- 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