From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/24] r/o bind mounts: stub functions
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:28:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070919172843.GD20917@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070917182723.3DC633F9@kernel>
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:27:23AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> This patch adds two function mnt_want_write() and
> mnt_drop_write(). These are used like a lock pair around
> and fs operations that might cause a write to the filesystem.
>
> Before these can become useful, we must first cover each
> place in the VFS where writes are performed with a
> want/drop pair. When that is complete, we can actually
> introduce code that will safely check the counts before
> allowing r/w<->r/o transitions to occur.
kerneldoc comments, please!
Otherwise looks fine.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-19 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-17 18:27 [PATCH 00/24] Read-only bind mounts Dave Hansen
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 01/24] filesystem helpers for custom 'struct file's Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-19 17:47 ` [PATCH] docuement " Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 22:07 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-20 17:25 ` Dave Hansen
2007-09-20 17:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 02/24] rearrange may_open() to be r/o friendly Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-20 18:47 ` Dave Hansen
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 03/24] create cleanup helper svc_msnfs() Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-19 17:39 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-19 17:45 ` Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:54 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-19 17:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-19 18:10 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 04/24] r/o bind mounts: stub functions Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:28 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 05/24] elevate write count open()'d files Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 06/24] r/o bind mounts: elevate write count for some ioctls Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 07/24] elevate writer count for chown and friends Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 08/24] make access() use mnt check Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 09/24] elevate mnt writers for callers of vfs_mkdir() Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 10/24] elevate write count during entire ncp_ioctl() Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 11/24] elevate write count for link and symlink calls Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 12/24] elevate mount count for extended attributes Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 13/24] elevate write count for file_update_time() Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 14/24] unix_find_other() elevate write count for touch_atime() Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 15/24] elevate write count over calls to vfs_rename() Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 16/24] nfs: check mnt instead of superblock directly Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 17/24] elevate writer count for do_sys_truncate() Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 18/24] elevate write count for do_utimes() Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 19/24] elevate write count for do_sys_utime() and touch_atime() Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 20/24] sys_mknodat(): elevate write count for vfs_mknod/create() Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 21/24] elevate mnt writers for vfs_unlink() callers Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 22/24] do_rmdir(): elevate write count Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-19 14:21 ` [PATCH 00/24] Read-only bind mounts Serge E. Hallyn
2007-09-19 17:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-19 21:24 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-19 21:56 ` Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 22:06 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-20 9:58 ` Miklos Szeredi
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