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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-01-14 22:30:21 -0500
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-01-16 13:47:07 -0500
commitf03c65993b98eeb909a4012ce7833c5857d74755 (patch)
treea6dd5e353889b7fe4ab87c54170d09443d788fec /include
parent7b8a53fd815deb39542085897743fa0063f9fe06 (diff)
downloadlinux-f03c65993b98eeb909a4012ce7833c5857d74755.tar.gz
sanitize vfsmount refcounting changes
Instead of splitting refcount between (per-cpu) mnt_count
and (SMP-only) mnt_longrefs, make all references contribute
to mnt_count again and keep track of how many are longterm
ones.

Accounting rules for longterm count:
	* 1 for each fs_struct.root.mnt
	* 1 for each fs_struct.pwd.mnt
	* 1 for having non-NULL ->mnt_ns
	* decrement to 0 happens only under vfsmount lock exclusive

That allows nice common case for mntput() - since we can't drop the
final reference until after mnt_longterm has reached 0 due to the rules
above, mntput() can grab vfsmount lock shared and check mnt_longterm.
If it turns out to be non-zero (which is the common case), we know
that this is not the final mntput() and can just blindly decrement
percpu mnt_count.  Otherwise we grab vfsmount lock exclusive and
do usual decrement-and-check of percpu mnt_count.

For fs_struct.c we have mnt_make_longterm() and mnt_make_shortterm();
namespace.c uses the latter in places where we don't already hold
vfsmount lock exclusive and opencodes a few remaining spots where
we need to manipulate mnt_longterm.

Note that we mostly revert the code outside of fs/namespace.c back
to what we used to have; in particular, normal code doesn't need
to care about two kinds of references, etc.  And we get to keep
the optimization Nick's variant had bought us...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mount.h4
-rw-r--r--include/linux/path.h2
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mount.h b/include/linux/mount.h
index af4765ea8fde..604f122a2326 100644
--- a/include/linux/mount.h
+++ b/include/linux/mount.h
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ struct vfsmount {
 	struct super_block *mnt_sb;	/* pointer to superblock */
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	struct mnt_pcp __percpu *mnt_pcp;
-	atomic_t mnt_longrefs;
+	atomic_t mnt_longterm;		/* how many of the refs are longterm */
 #else
 	int mnt_count;
 	int mnt_writers;
@@ -96,8 +96,6 @@ extern int mnt_clone_write(struct vfsmount *mnt);
 extern void mnt_drop_write(struct vfsmount *mnt);
 extern void mntput(struct vfsmount *mnt);
 extern struct vfsmount *mntget(struct vfsmount *mnt);
-extern void mntput_long(struct vfsmount *mnt);
-extern struct vfsmount *mntget_long(struct vfsmount *mnt);
 extern void mnt_pin(struct vfsmount *mnt);
 extern void mnt_unpin(struct vfsmount *mnt);
 extern int __mnt_is_readonly(struct vfsmount *mnt);
diff --git a/include/linux/path.h b/include/linux/path.h
index a581e8c06533..edc98dec6266 100644
--- a/include/linux/path.h
+++ b/include/linux/path.h
@@ -10,9 +10,7 @@ struct path {
 };
 
 extern void path_get(struct path *);
-extern void path_get_long(struct path *);
 extern void path_put(struct path *);
-extern void path_put_long(struct path *);
 
 static inline int path_equal(const struct path *path1, const struct path *path2)
 {