linux-kernel - Re: nfsd stuckage

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Date:	Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:28:16 -0500
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	hch@....de, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, neilb@...e.de, snakebyte@....de
Subject: Re: nfsd stuckage

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 04:23:28PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:15:01 -0500
> "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org> wrote:
> 
> >     nfsd: fix double-locks of directory mutex
> 
> grumble.

This is literally just a revert of part of 4c728ef583b3d822; if you'd
like me to clean up this stuff while I'm there, I'm happy to.

--b.

> > +/*
> > + * Sync a file
> > + * As this calls fsync (not fdatasync) there is no need for a write_inode
> > + * after it.
> > + */
> > +static inline int nfsd_dosync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dp,
> > +			      const struct file_operations *fop)
> > +{
> > +	struct inode *inode = dp->d_inode;
> > +	int (*fsync) (struct file *, struct dentry *, int);
> > +	int err;
> > +
> > +	err = filemap_fdatawrite(inode->i_mapping);
> > +	if (err == 0 && fop && (fsync = fop->fsync))
> > +		err = fsync(filp, dp, 0);
> > +	if (err == 0)
> > +		err = filemap_fdatawait(inode->i_mapping);
> > +
> > +	return err;
> > +}
> 
> This function is HUGE!  And hardly a fastpath.
> 
> >  static int
> >  nfsd_sync(struct file *filp)
> >  {
> > -	return vfs_fsync(filp, filp->f_path.dentry, 0);
> > +        int err;
> > +	struct inode *inode = filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
> > +	dprintk("nfsd: sync file %s\n", filp->f_path.dentry->d_name.name);
> > +	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
> > +	err=nfsd_dosync(filp, filp->f_path.dentry, filp->f_op);
> 
> (checkpatch?)
> 
> > +	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
> > +
> > +	return err;
> >  }
> >  
> >  int
> > -nfsd_sync_dir(struct dentry *dentry)
> > +nfsd_sync_dir(struct dentry *dp)
> >  {
> > -	return vfs_fsync(NULL, dentry, 0);
> > +	return nfsd_dosync(NULL, dp, dp->d_inode->i_fop);
> >  }
> 
> And we expand it twice.  
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