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Commit 880b9577 authored by Darrick J. Wong's avatar Darrick J. Wong
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fs: distinguish between user initiated freeze and kernel initiated freeze



Userspace can freeze a filesystem using the FIFREEZE ioctl or by
suspending the block device; this state persists until userspace thaws
the filesystem with the FITHAW ioctl or resuming the block device.
Since commit 18e9e510 ("Introduce freeze_super and thaw_super for
the fsfreeze ioctl") we only allow the first freeze command to succeed.

The kernel may decide that it is necessary to freeze a filesystem for
its own internal purposes, such as suspends in progress, filesystem fsck
activities, or quiescing a device prior to removal.  Userspace thaw
commands must never break a kernel freeze, and kernel thaw commands
shouldn't undo userspace's freeze command.

Introduce a couple of freeze holder flags and wire it into the
sb_writers state.  One kernel and one userspace freeze are allowed to
coexist at the same time; the filesystem will not thaw until both are
lifted.

I wonder if the f2fs/gfs2 code should be using a kernel freeze here, but
for now we'll use FREEZE_HOLDER_USERSPACE to preserve existing
behaviors.

Cc: mcgrof@kernel.org
Cc: jack@suse.cz
Cc: hch@infradead.org
Cc: ruansy.fnst@fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
parent fdf0eaf1
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