From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
"Christian Brauner (Amutable)" <brauner@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] super: convert to a plain hashtable
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:31:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261012-work-super-dev_hash-v1-0-305cf71cd334@kernel.org> (raw)
This sits on top of the superblock fixes for v7.3.
Convert the rhltable to a plain hashtable under a spinlock. The walks
keep their place with a cursor entry in the chain. A claim is unhashed
the moment it's dropped and a walk that finds a superblock that isn't
born yet waits for it to be born or to die and looks again. Since
hashing can't fail anymore the entry for the superblock's own s_dev is
embedded in struct super_block and the preallocation in alloc_super()
goes away. This all simplifies things quite a lot.
It also fixes a btrfs bug where fs_bdev_freeze() ended up freezing a
btrfs filesystem through a stale member that open_ctree() had already
released while the freeze was waiting for SB_BORN. The resume doesn't
find a holder for that device anymore so the filesystem stays frozen
for good.
The selftest freezes a device that several erofs superblocks share.
That's the one case where a device legitimately carries claims from more
than one superblock and it checks that a suspend freezes each of them
exactly once and that mounts coming and going under a suspended device
leave nothing frozen behind.
I modeled the table in TLA+ and checked the real list code with CBMC.
Both agree with the design.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
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Christian Brauner (2):
selftests/filesystems: add a test for freezing a shared block device
super: convert to plain hashtable
block/bdev.c | 2 +-
fs/internal.h | 1 -
fs/namespace.c | 2 -
fs/super.c | 332 ++++++--------
include/linux/fs/super_types.h | 11 +-
.../selftests/filesystems/freeze/.gitignore | 1 +
.../testing/selftests/filesystems/freeze/Makefile | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/freeze/config | 1 +
.../filesystems/freeze/shared_bdev_test.c | 479 +++++++++++++++++++++
9 files changed, 627 insertions(+), 204 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 16efce55f70b6093dbe53bffb8e79fb0e08a95b6
change-id: 20261011-work-super-dev_hash-e30f79361408
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2026-10-12 12:31 Christian Brauner [this message]
2026-10-12 12:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] selftests/filesystems: add a test for freezing a shared block device Christian Brauner
2026-10-12 12:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] super: convert to plain hashtable Christian Brauner
2026-10-12 16:16 ` Jan Kara
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