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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] change sb_writers to use percpu_rw_semaphore
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 23:34:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150722213437.GA20617@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150722211541.GA20017@redhat.com>

Sorry for noise, but let me say just in case...

On 07/22, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Perhaps we should also cleanup the usage of ->frozen. It would be
> better to set/clear (say) SB_FREEZE_WRITE with the corresponding
> write-lock held. Currently freeze_super() has to set SB_FREEZE_WRITE
> before sb_wait_write(SB_FREEZE_WRITE) to avoid the race with itself,

"Currently" means "after this change". Before this change we obviously
need to increment ->frozen before sb_wait_write().

> The "From now on, no new normal writers
> can start" removed by this patch was not really correct.

Yes, it was confusing even without this change.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-22 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-22 21:15 [PATCH 0/4] change sb_writers to use percpu_rw_semaphore Oleg Nesterov
2015-07-22 21:15 ` [PATCH 1/4] percpu-rwsem: introduce percpu_down_read_trylock() Oleg Nesterov
2015-07-22 21:15 ` [PATCH 2/4] percpu-rwsem: introduce percpu_rwsem_release() and percpu_rwsem_acquire() Oleg Nesterov
2015-07-31 10:20   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-08-03 15:40     ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-07-22 21:15 ` [PATCH 3/4] shift percpu_counter_destroy() into destroy_super_work() Oleg Nesterov
2015-07-28  8:36   ` Jan Kara
2015-07-22 21:15 ` [PATCH 4/4] change sb_writers to use percpu_rw_semaphore Oleg Nesterov
2015-07-22 21:34   ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2015-07-28  8:34   ` Jan Kara
2015-08-03 17:30     ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-08-07 19:54   ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-08-07 19:55 ` [PATCH 0/4] " Oleg Nesterov
2015-08-10 14:59   ` Jan Kara
2015-08-10 22:41     ` Dave Chinner
2015-08-11 13:16       ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-08-11 13:29         ` Jan Kara
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-07-13 21:25 [PATCH RFC " Oleg Nesterov
2015-07-13 21:25 ` [PATCH 4/4] " Oleg Nesterov

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