[PATCH 1/6] ext4: replace kthread freezing with auto fs freezing

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

From: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

The kernel power management now supports allowing the VFS
to handle filesystem freezing freezes and thawing. Take advantage
of that and remove the kthread freezing. This is needed so that we
properly really stop IO in flight without races after userspace
has been frozen. Without this we rely on kthread freezing and
its semantics are loose and error prone.

The filesystem therefore is in charge of properly dealing with
quiescing of the filesystem through its callbacks if it thinks
it knows better than how the VFS handles it.

The following Coccinelle rule was used as to remove the now superfluous
freezer calls:

make coccicheck MODE=patch SPFLAGS="--in-place --no-show-diff" COCCI=./fs-freeze-cleanup.cocci M=fs/ext4

virtual patch

@ remove_set_freezable @
expression time;
statement S, S2;
expression task, current;
@@

(
-       set_freezable();
|
-       if (try_to_freeze())
-               continue;
|
-       try_to_freeze();
|
-       freezable_schedule();
+       schedule();
|
-       freezable_schedule_timeout(time);
+       schedule_timeout(time);
|
-       if (freezing(task)) { S }
|
-       if (freezing(task)) { S }
-       else
	    { S2 }
|
-       freezing(current)
)

@ remove_wq_freezable @
expression WQ_E, WQ_ARG1, WQ_ARG2, WQ_ARG3, WQ_ARG4;
identifier fs_wq_fn;
@@

(
    WQ_E = alloc_workqueue(WQ_ARG1,
-                              WQ_ARG2 | WQ_FREEZABLE,
+                              WQ_ARG2,
			   ...);
|
    WQ_E = alloc_workqueue(WQ_ARG1,
-                              WQ_ARG2 | WQ_FREEZABLE | WQ_ARG3,
+                              WQ_ARG2 | WQ_ARG3,
			   ...);
|
    WQ_E = alloc_workqueue(WQ_ARG1,
-                              WQ_ARG2 | WQ_ARG3 | WQ_FREEZABLE,
+                              WQ_ARG2 | WQ_ARG3,
			   ...);
|
    WQ_E = alloc_workqueue(WQ_ARG1,
-                              WQ_ARG2 | WQ_ARG3 | WQ_FREEZABLE | WQ_ARG4,
+                              WQ_ARG2 | WQ_ARG3 | WQ_ARG4,
			   ...);
|
	    WQ_E =
-               WQ_ARG1 | WQ_FREEZABLE
+               WQ_ARG1
|
	    WQ_E =
-               WQ_ARG1 | WQ_FREEZABLE | WQ_ARG3
+               WQ_ARG1 | WQ_ARG3
|
    fs_wq_fn(
-               WQ_FREEZABLE | WQ_ARG2 | WQ_ARG3
+               WQ_ARG2 | WQ_ARG3
    )
|
    fs_wq_fn(
-               WQ_FREEZABLE | WQ_ARG2
+               WQ_ARG2
    )
|
    fs_wq_fn(
-               WQ_FREEZABLE
+               0
    )
)

@ add_auto_flag @
expression E1;
identifier fs_type;
@@

struct file_system_type fs_type = {
	.fs_flags = E1
+                   | FS_AUTOFREEZE
	,
};

Generated-by: Coccinelle SmPL
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250326112220.1988619-5-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
---
 fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 2 +-
 fs/ext4/super.c   | 3 ---
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 0d523e9fb3d5..ae235ec5ff3a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -6782,7 +6782,7 @@ static ext4_grpblk_t ext4_last_grp_cluster(struct super_block *sb,
 
 static bool ext4_trim_interrupted(void)
 {
-	return fatal_signal_pending(current) || freezing(current);
+	return fatal_signal_pending(current);
 }
 
 static int ext4_try_to_trim_range(struct super_block *sb,
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 8122d4ffb3b5..020c818078d7 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -3778,7 +3778,6 @@ static int ext4_lazyinit_thread(void *arg)
 	unsigned long next_wakeup, cur;
 
 	BUG_ON(NULL == eli);
-	set_freezable();
 
 cont_thread:
 	while (true) {
@@ -3837,8 +3836,6 @@ static int ext4_lazyinit_thread(void *arg)
 		}
 		mutex_unlock(&eli->li_list_mtx);
 
-		try_to_freeze();
-
 		cur = jiffies;
 		if (!next_wakeup_initialized || time_after_eq(cur, next_wakeup)) {
 			cond_resched();

-- 
2.47.2