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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/notify')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/notify/mark.c | 50 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/mark.c b/fs/notify/mark.c index fc6b49bf7360..923fe4a5f503 100644 --- a/fs/notify/mark.c +++ b/fs/notify/mark.c @@ -20,28 +20,29 @@ * fsnotify inode mark locking/lifetime/and refcnting * * REFCNT: - * The mark->refcnt tells how many "things" in the kernel currently are - * referencing this object. The object typically will live inside the kernel - * with a refcnt of 2, one for each list it is on (i_list, g_list). Any task - * which can find this object holding the appropriete locks, can take a reference - * and the object itself is guaranteed to survive until the reference is dropped. + * The group->recnt and mark->refcnt tell how many "things" in the kernel + * currently are referencing the objects. Both kind of objects typically will + * live inside the kernel with a refcnt of 2, one for its creation and one for + * the reference a group and a mark hold to each other. + * If you are holding the appropriate locks, you can take a reference and the + * object itself is guaranteed to survive until the reference is dropped. * * LOCKING: - * There are 3 spinlocks involved with fsnotify inode marks and they MUST - * be taken in order as follows: + * There are 3 locks involved with fsnotify inode marks and they MUST be taken + * in order as follows: * + * group->mark_mutex * mark->lock - * group->mark_lock * inode->i_lock * - * mark->lock protects 2 things, mark->group and mark->inode. You must hold - * that lock to dereference either of these things (they could be NULL even with - * the lock) - * - * group->mark_lock protects the marks_list anchored inside a given group - * and each mark is hooked via the g_list. It also sorta protects the - * free_g_list, which when used is anchored by a private list on the stack of the - * task which held the group->mark_lock. + * group->mark_mutex protects the marks_list anchored inside a given group and + * each mark is hooked via the g_list. It also protects the groups private + * data (i.e group limits). + + * mark->lock protects the marks attributes like its masks and flags. + * Furthermore it protects the access to a reference of the group that the mark + * is assigned to as well as the access to a reference of the inode/vfsmount + * that is being watched by the mark. * * inode->i_lock protects the i_fsnotify_marks list anchored inside a * given inode and each mark is hooked via the i_list. (and sorta the @@ -64,18 +65,11 @@ * inode. We take i_lock and walk the i_fsnotify_marks safely. For each * mark on the list we take a reference (so the mark can't disappear under us). * We remove that mark form the inode's list of marks and we add this mark to a - * private list anchored on the stack using i_free_list; At this point we no - * longer fear anything finding the mark using the inode's list of marks. - * - * We can safely and locklessly run the private list on the stack of everything - * we just unattached from the original inode. For each mark on the private list - * we grab the mark-> and can thus dereference mark->group and mark->inode. If - * we see the group and inode are not NULL we take those locks. Now holding all - * 3 locks we can completely remove the mark from other tasks finding it in the - * future. Remember, 10 things might already be referencing this mark, but they - * better be holding a ref. We drop our reference we took before we unhooked it - * from the inode. When the ref hits 0 we can free the mark. - * + * private list anchored on the stack using i_free_list; we walk i_free_list + * and before we destroy the mark we make sure that we dont race with a + * concurrent destroy_group by getting a ref to the marks group and taking the + * groups mutex. + * Very similarly for freeing by group, except we use free_g_list. * * This has the very interesting property of being able to run concurrently with |