Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/14] Introduce union stack

Badari Pulavarty
2007-05-14T20:22:49Z

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 15:10 +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> From: Jan Blunck <j.blunck@tu-harburg.de>
> Subject: Introduce union stack.
>
> Adds union stack infrastructure to the dentry structure and provides
> locking routines to walk the union stack.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <j.blunck@tu-harburg.de>
> Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
...

> +/*
> + * This is a *I can't get no sleep* helper which is called when we try
> + * to access the struct fs_struct *fs field of a struct task_struct.
> + *
> + * Yes, this is possibly starving but we have to change root, altroot
> + * or pwd in the frequency of this while loop. Don't think that this
> + * happens really often ;)
> + *
> + * This is called while holding the rwlock_t fs->lock
> + *
> + * TODO: Unlocking side of union_lock_fs() needs 3 union_unlock()s.
> + * May be introduce union_unlock_fs().
> + *
> + * FIXME: This routine is used when the caller wants to dget one or
> + * more of fs->[root, altroot, pwd]. When the caller doesn't want to
> + * dget _all_ of these, it is strictly not necessary to get union_locks
> + * on all of these. Check.
> + */
> +static inline void union_lock_fs(struct fs_struct *fs)
> +{
> + int locked;
> +
> + while (fs) {
> + locked = union_trylock(fs->root);
> + if (!locked)
> + goto loop1;
> + locked = union_trylock(fs->altroot);
> + if (!locked)
> + goto loop2;
> + locked = union_trylock(fs->pwd);
> + if (!locked)
> + goto loop3;
> + break;
> + loop3:
> + union_unlock(fs->altroot);
> + loop2:
> + union_unlock(fs->root);
> + loop1:
> + read_unlock(&fs->lock);
> + UM_DEBUG_LOCK("Failed to get all semaphores in fs_struct!\n");
> + cpu_relax();
> + read_lock(&fs->lock);
> + continue;

Nit.. why "continue" ?

> + }
> + BUG_ON(!fs);

Whats the use of BUG_ON() here ? Top of the function would be more
useful.

Thanks,
Badari