From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81EB8C32753 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2019 23:35:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B920208C2 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2019 23:35:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728750AbfHNXf6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Aug 2019 19:35:58 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:50272 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728583AbfHNXf5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Aug 2019 19:35:57 -0400 Received: from viro by ZenIV.linux.org.uk with local (Exim 4.92 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1hy2o8-0001eY-8P; Wed, 14 Aug 2019 23:35:56 +0000 Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:35:56 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Sascha Hauer Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Jan Kara , Richard Weinberger , kernel@pengutronix.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] fs, quota: introduce wait_super_thawed() to wait until a superblock is thawed Message-ID: <20190814233556.GV1131@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20190814121834.13983-1-s.hauer@pengutronix.de> <20190814121834.13983-5-s.hauer@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190814121834.13983-5-s.hauer@pengutronix.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.12.0 (2019-05-25) Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 02:18:27PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote: > quota uses three different functions to get a superblock from a > block_device. Instead, retrieve the superblock always with get_super() > and introduce wait_super_thawed() which is then used to wait until the > superblock is thawed. This way the code can better be shared with the > code introduced in the next step: We want to add quota support for > filesystems without a block_device, so here functions around a > block_device can't be used. > + * wait_super_thawed - wait for a superblock being thawed > + * @sb: superblock to wait for > + * @excl: if true, get s_umount semaphore exclusively > + * > + * Wait until the superblock is thawed. s_umount semaphore must be released on > + * entry and will be held when returning. > + */ Never expose anything like that - if locking rules depend upon the flags, it MUST NOT be anything beyond a static helper. I'm serious - that kind of stuff ends up with trouble again and again. Just don't.