Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Filesystem Suspend Resume

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 15:59 +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
[...]
> So to summarize I think we may need to introduce freezable variant of
> percpu_rwsem_down_read() and use it in sb_start_write().

Aye, aye, sir! and thanks for making the can of worms bigger ...

This is what I came up with for freezable variants of the
sb_write_start().  I'm still building the kernel (laptop only ...) so
I'll let you know in an hour or so if it actually works.

Regards,

James

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diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index dd84d1c3b8af..ce21d81c6e34 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1782,7 +1782,8 @@ static inline void __sb_end_write(struct super_block *sb, int level)
 
 static inline void __sb_start_write(struct super_block *sb, int level)
 {
-	percpu_down_read(sb->s_writers.rw_sem + level - 1);
+	percpu_down_read_freezable(sb->s_writers.rw_sem + level - 1,
+				   level == SB_FREEZE_WRITE);
 }
 
 static inline bool __sb_start_write_trylock(struct super_block *sb, int level)
diff --git a/include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h b/include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h
index c012df33a9f0..a55fe709b832 100644
--- a/include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h
+++ b/include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h
@@ -42,9 +42,10 @@ is_static struct percpu_rw_semaphore name = {				\
 #define DEFINE_STATIC_PERCPU_RWSEM(name)	\
 	__DEFINE_PERCPU_RWSEM(name, static)
 
-extern bool __percpu_down_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *, bool);
+extern bool __percpu_down_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *, bool, bool);
 
-static inline void percpu_down_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *sem)
+static inline void percpu_down_read_internal(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *sem,
+					     bool freezable)
 {
 	might_sleep();
 
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ static inline void percpu_down_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *sem)
 	if (likely(rcu_sync_is_idle(&sem->rss)))
 		this_cpu_inc(*sem->read_count);
 	else
-		__percpu_down_read(sem, false); /* Unconditional memory barrier */
+		__percpu_down_read(sem, false, freezable); /* Unconditional memory barrier */
 	/*
 	 * The preempt_enable() prevents the compiler from
 	 * bleeding the critical section out.
@@ -70,6 +71,17 @@ static inline void percpu_down_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *sem)
 	preempt_enable();
 }
 
+static inline void percpu_down_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *sem)
+{
+	percpu_down_read_internal(sem, false);
+}
+
+static inline void percpu_down_read_freezable(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *sem,
+					      bool freeze)
+{
+	percpu_down_read_internal(sem, freeze);
+}
+
 static inline bool percpu_down_read_trylock(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *sem)
 {
 	bool ret = true;
@@ -81,7 +93,7 @@ static inline bool percpu_down_read_trylock(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *sem)
 	if (likely(rcu_sync_is_idle(&sem->rss)))
 		this_cpu_inc(*sem->read_count);
 	else
-		ret = __percpu_down_read(sem, true); /* Unconditional memory barrier */
+		ret = __percpu_down_read(sem, true, false); /* Unconditional memory barrier */
 	preempt_enable();
 	/*
 	 * The barrier() from preempt_enable() prevents the compiler from
diff --git a/kernel/locking/percpu-rwsem.c b/kernel/locking/percpu-rwsem.c
index 6083883c4fe0..890837b73476 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/percpu-rwsem.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/percpu-rwsem.c
@@ -138,7 +138,8 @@ static int percpu_rwsem_wake_function(struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry,
 	return !reader; /* wake (readers until) 1 writer */
 }
 
-static void percpu_rwsem_wait(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *sem, bool reader)
+static void percpu_rwsem_wait(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *sem, bool reader,
+			      bool freeze)
 {
 	DEFINE_WAIT_FUNC(wq_entry, percpu_rwsem_wake_function);
 	bool wait;
@@ -156,7 +157,8 @@ static void percpu_rwsem_wait(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *sem, bool reader)
 	spin_unlock_irq(&sem->waiters.lock);
 
 	while (wait) {
-		set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+		set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE |
+				  freeze ? TASK_FREEZABLE : 0);
 		if (!smp_load_acquire(&wq_entry.private))
 			break;
 		schedule();
@@ -164,7 +166,8 @@ static void percpu_rwsem_wait(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *sem, bool reader)
 	__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
 }
 
-bool __sched __percpu_down_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *sem, bool try)
+bool __sched __percpu_down_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *sem, bool try,
+				bool freeze)
 {
 	if (__percpu_down_read_trylock(sem))
 		return true;
@@ -174,7 +177,7 @@ bool __sched __percpu_down_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *sem, bool try)
 
 	trace_contention_begin(sem, LCB_F_PERCPU | LCB_F_READ);
 	preempt_enable();
-	percpu_rwsem_wait(sem, /* .reader = */ true);
+	percpu_rwsem_wait(sem, /* .reader = */ true, freeze);
 	preempt_disable();
 	trace_contention_end(sem, 0);
 
@@ -237,7 +240,7 @@ void __sched percpu_down_write(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *sem)
 	 */
 	if (!__percpu_down_write_trylock(sem)) {
 		trace_contention_begin(sem, LCB_F_PERCPU | LCB_F_WRITE);
-		percpu_rwsem_wait(sem, /* .reader = */ false);
+		percpu_rwsem_wait(sem, /* .reader = */ false, false);
 		contended = true;
 	}