Re: [PATCH V4] Allow SysRq emergency thaw to thaw frozen filesystems

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:55:18 -0600
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> wrote:

> (this version fixes a couple small issues raised by Randy Dunlap)
> (and adds sb_lock locking I forgot, as akpm pointed out)
> (Randy's CONFIG_BLOCK fix should still apply over this)

<converts it to a delta so I can see what you did>

--- a/fs/buffer.c~allow-sysrq-emergency-thaw-to-thaw-frozen-filesystems-v4
+++ a/fs/buffer.c
@@ -263,11 +263,13 @@ void do_thaw_all(unsigned long unused)
 	struct super_block *sb;
 	char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
 
+	spin_lock(&sb_lock);
 	list_for_each_entry(sb, &super_blocks, s_list) {
 		while (sb->s_bdev && !thaw_bdev(sb->s_bdev, sb))
 			printk(KERN_WARNING "Emergency Thaw on %s\n",
 			       bdevname(sb->s_bdev, b));
 	}
+	spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
 	printk(KERN_WARNING "Emergency Thaw complete\n");
 }
 
_


Can't call thaw_bdev() under spinlock.


If we're going to do this, I think it will need the whole
sb_lock/s_count/s_umount song-n-dance.

It's a pretty common operation.  What you want is, I think, identical
to sync_supers(), only with one line changed.

so we could do

void apply_to_all_supers(void (fn)(struct super_block *))
{
	struct super_block *sb;

	spin_lock(&sb_lock);
restart:
	list_for_each_entry(sb, &super_blocks, s_list) {
		if (sb->s_dirt) {
			sb->s_count++;
			spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
			down_read(&sb->s_umount);
			(*fn)(sb);
			up_read(&sb->s_umount);
			spin_lock(&sb_lock);
			if (__put_super_and_need_restart(sb))
				goto restart;
		}
	}
	spin_unlock(&sb_lock);

}

That isn't quite sufficient to use for get_super(), but I think it
could be made so.

Ditto user_get_super().

Ditto do_emergency_remount()

But that's a separate little project for someone.  For the purposes of
this patch I guess you could do yet another copy-n-paste.