linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext3: Remove the obsolete broken EXT3_IOC32_WAIT_FOR

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Message-ID: <20111007221233.GD30754@quack.suse.cz>
Date:	Sat, 8 Oct 2011 00:12:33 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Tao Ma <tm@....ma>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3: Remove the obsolete broken
 EXT3_IOC32_WAIT_FOR_READONLY.

On Fri 07-10-11 23:21:18, Tao Ma wrote:
> From: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>
> 
> There are no user of EXT3_IOC32_WAIT_FOR_READONLY and also it is
> broken. No one set the set_ro_timer, no one wake up us and our
> state is set to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE not RUNNING. So remove it.
  Hmm, I vaguely recall Andrew had some debugging patches which were using
turn_ro_timer and this functionality. But I'm not sure if they are still
usable or if they still make sense when one can easily test crashing using
virtual machines... Andrew?

								Honza
> 
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>
> ---
>  fs/ext3/ioctl.c            |   24 ------------------------
>  include/linux/ext3_fs_sb.h |    4 ----
>  2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext3/ioctl.c b/fs/ext3/ioctl.c
> index c7f4394..ba1b54e 100644
> --- a/fs/ext3/ioctl.c
> +++ b/fs/ext3/ioctl.c
> @@ -150,30 +150,6 @@ setversion_out:
>  		mnt_drop_write(filp->f_path.mnt);
>  		return err;
>  	}
> -#ifdef CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG
> -	case EXT3_IOC_WAIT_FOR_READONLY:
> -		/*
> -		 * This is racy - by the time we're woken up and running,
> -		 * the superblock could be released.  And the module could
> -		 * have been unloaded.  So sue me.
> -		 *
> -		 * Returns 1 if it slept, else zero.
> -		 */
> -		{
> -			struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
> -			DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current);
> -			int ret = 0;
> -
> -			set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> -			add_wait_queue(&EXT3_SB(sb)->ro_wait_queue, &wait);
> -			if (timer_pending(&EXT3_SB(sb)->turn_ro_timer)) {
> -				schedule();
> -				ret = 1;
> -			}
> -			remove_wait_queue(&EXT3_SB(sb)->ro_wait_queue, &wait);
> -			return ret;
> -		}
> -#endif
>  	case EXT3_IOC_GETRSVSZ:
>  		if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, RESERVATION)
>  			&& S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)
> diff --git a/include/linux/ext3_fs_sb.h b/include/linux/ext3_fs_sb.h
> index 258088a..6436525 100644
> --- a/include/linux/ext3_fs_sb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/ext3_fs_sb.h
> @@ -76,10 +76,6 @@ struct ext3_sb_info {
>  	struct mutex s_resize_lock;
>  	unsigned long s_commit_interval;
>  	struct block_device *journal_bdev;
> -#ifdef CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG
> -	struct timer_list turn_ro_timer;	/* For turning read-only (crash simulation) */
> -	wait_queue_head_t ro_wait_queue;	/* For people waiting for the fs to go read-only */
> -#endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA
>  	char *s_qf_names[MAXQUOTAS];		/* Names of quota files with journalled quota */
>  	int s_jquota_fmt;			/* Format of quota to use */
> -- 
> 1.7.1
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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