Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] deadlock with suspend and quotas

[Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>]

On Wed 30-11-11 01:52:22, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > > dm-ioctl.h:
> > > /*
> > >  * Set this to avoid attempting to freeze any filesystem when suspending.
> > >  */
> > > #define DM_SKIP_LOCKFS_FLAG     (1 << 10) /* In */
> >   Thanks. I was now checking in detail and indeed FIFREEZE fails if
> > ->freeze_fs is not set. And only xfs, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, jfs, nilfs2,
> > and gfs2 provide this function. So I was correct in assuming that when
> > filesystem supports FIFREEZE it must make sure no modifications happen to
> > the filesystem. So I believe that my original plan for sync to skip frozen
> > filesystem is correct.
> > 
> > 								Honza
> 
> LVM doesn't suspend with FIFREEZE, it calls freeze_bdev directly from 
> drivers/md/dm.c (and it works for all filesystems, including ext2).
  Ah, I see. Sorry I missed this. But then I can only reiterate that
drivers/md/dm.c is IMHO broken. Either it cares about filesystem being
really frozen - and then it should refuse the operation for e.g. ext2
because it cannot be frozen - or it does not care about filesystem being
frozen and then there's no point in calling freeze_super(). Possibly, you
might still want to e.g. try snapshotting even if freeze_super() would
return EOPNOTSUPP but that should be handled inside dm, not by errorneously
marking filesystem as frozen when it is not. Or am I still missing
something?

> So if you skip sync of frozen filesystems, you introduce a data
> corruption if someone takes a snapshot of ext2.
  Yes, because ext2 cannot really be frozen, it is (errorneously) marked
as such but it is not frozen...

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR