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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/5 resend] VFS: Fix s_umount thaw/write deadlock
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 12:16:58AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Tue 06-12-11 06:35:44, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > We make sure to not dirty any new inodes after the first phase of the
> > freeze, so this should be a BUG_ON/WARN_ON.
> This is not really true in presence of mmaped writes. To block mmaped
> writes on a frozen filesystem, we need some synchronization between
> page_mkwrite() and freezing code. Currently, to avoid any additional
> locking overhead, we set page dirty and *then* check for filesystem being
> frozen. Only this order can make sure either the page is written (and
> write-protected) or the frozen check triggers and we wait... (see the
> comment in block_page_mkwrite()). The nasty sideeffect of this is that
> there can be dirty pages & inodes on a frozen filesystem. We are blocked in
> the page fault of these pages so user cannot write any data to these pages
> but still they are marked dirty.

Can't we make the mmaps read-only during the freezing process?

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operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
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