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So far, at mount time, gfs2 would take the freeze glock in shared mode and then immediately drop it again, turning it into a cached glock that can be reclaimed at any time. To freeze the filesystem cluster-wide, the node initiating the freeze would take the freeze glock in exclusive mode, which would cause the freeze glock's freeze_go_sync() callback to run on each node. There, gfs2 would freeze the filesystem and schedule gfs2_freeze_func() to run. gfs2_freeze_func() would re-acquire the freeze glock in shared mode, thaw the filesystem, and drop the freeze glock again. The initiating node would keep the freeze glock held in exclusive mode. To thaw the filesystem, the initiating node would drop the freeze glock again, which would allow gfs2_freeze_func() to resume on all nodes, leaving the filesystem in the thawed state. It turns out that in freeze_go_sync(), we cannot reliably and safely freeze the filesystem. This is primarily because the final unmount of a filesystem takes a write lock on the s_umount rw semaphore before calling into gfs2_put_super(), and freeze_go_sync() needs to call freeze_super() which also takes a write lock on the same semaphore, causing a deadlock. We could work around this by trying to take an active reference on the super block first, which would prevent unmount from running at the same time. But that can fail, and freeze_go_sync() isn't actually allowed to fail. To get around this, this patch changes the freeze glock locking scheme as follows: At mount time, each node takes the freeze glock in shared mode. To freeze a filesystem, the initiating node first freezes the filesystem locally and then drops and re-acquires the freeze glock in exclusive mode. All other nodes notice that there is contention on the freeze glock in their go_callback callbacks, and they schedule gfs2_freeze_func() to run. There, they freeze the filesystem locally and drop and re-acquire the freeze glock before re-thawing the filesystem. This is happening outside of the glock state engine, so there, we are allowed to fail. From a cluster point of view, taking and immediately dropping a glock is indistinguishable from taking the glock and only dropping it upon contention, so this new scheme is compatible with the old one. Thanks to Li Dong <lidong@vivo.com> for reporting a locking bug in gfs2_freeze_func() in a previous version of this commit. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.