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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: add missing mutex lock arround notify_change
    On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 02:06:37AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
    > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 02:03:40AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
    >
    > > OK, I'm definitely missing something. The very first thing
    > > xfs_file_aio_write_checks() does is
    > > xfs_rw_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
    > > which really makes me wonder how the hell does that manage to avoid an
    > > instant deadlock in case of call via xfs_file_buffered_aio_write()
    > > where we have:
    > > struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
    > > struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
    > > struct xfs_inode *ip = XFS_I(inode);
    > > *iolock = XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL;
    > > xfs_rw_ilock(ip, *iolock);
    > > ret = xfs_file_aio_write_checks(file, &pos, &count, new_size, iolock);
    > > which leads to
    > > struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
    > > struct xfs_inode *ip = XFS_I(inode);
    > > (IOW, inode and ip are the same as in the caller) followed by
    > > xfs_rw_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
    > > and with both xfs_rw_ilock() calls turning into
    > > mutex_lock(&VFS_I(ip)->i_mutex);
    > > xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
    > > we ought to deadlock on that i_mutex. What am I missing and how do we manage
    > > to survive that?
    >
    > Arrrgh... OK, I see... What I missed is that XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL is not
    > XFS_ILOCK_EXCL. Nice naming, that...

    Been that way for 15 years. :/

    However, the naming makes sense to me - the IO lock is for
    serialising IO operations on the inode, while the I lock is for
    serialising metadata operations on the inode. I guess I'm used to
    it, though, so I'll conceed that it might look strange/confusing to
    someone who only occassionally looks at the internal XFS locking
    code....

    Cheers,

    Dave.
    --
    Dave Chinner
    david@fromorbit.com


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