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  1. Mar 05, 2010
    • Jan Kara's avatar
      ext3: Use bitops to read/modify EXT3_I(inode)->i_state · 9df93939
      Jan Kara authored
      
      
      At several places we modify EXT3_I(inode)->i_state without holding i_mutex
      (ext3_release_file, ext3_bmap, ext3_journalled_writepage, ext3_do_update_inode,
      ...). These modifications are racy and we can lose updates to i_state. So
      convert handling of i_state to use bitops which are atomic.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      9df93939
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      quota: Cleanup S_NOQUOTA handling · 26245c94
      Jan Kara authored
      
      
      Cleanup handling of S_NOQUOTA inode flag and document it a bit. The flag
      does not have to be set under dqptr_sem. Only functions modifying inode's
      dquot pointers have to check the flag under dqptr_sem before going forward
      with the modification. This way we are sure that we cannot add new dquot
      pointers to the inode which is just becoming a quota file.
      
      The good thing about this cleanup is that there are no more places in quota
      code which enforce i_mutex vs. dqptr_sem lock ordering (in particular that
      dqptr_sem -> i_mutex of quota file). This should silence some (false) lockdep
      warnings with ext4 + quota and generally make life of some filesystems easier.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      26245c94
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