* stores to block pointers are under per-inode seqlock (meta_lock) and
mutex (truncate_mutex)
* fetches of block pointers are either under truncate_mutex, or wrapped
into seqretry loop on meta_lock
* all changes of ->i_size are under truncate_mutex and i_mutex
* all changes of ->i_lastfrag are under truncate_mutex
It's similar to what ext2 is doing; the main difference is that unlike
ext2 we can't rely upon the atomicity of stores into block pointers -
on UFS2 they are 64bit. So we can't cut the corner when switching
a pointer from NULL to non-NULL as we could in ext2_splice_branch()
and need to use meta_lock on all modifications.
We use seqlock where ext2 uses rwlock; ext2 could probably also benefit
from such change...
Another non-trivial difference is that with UFS we *cannot* have reader
grab truncate_mutex in case of race - it has to keep retrying. That
might be possible to change, but not until we lift tail unpacking
several levels up in call chain.
After that commit we do *NOT* hold fs-wide serialization on accesses
to block pointers anymore. Moreover, lock_ufs() can become a normal
mutex now - it's only used on statfs, remount and sync_fs and none
of those uses are recursive. As the matter of fact, *now* it can be
collapsed with ->s_lock, and be eventually replaced with saner
per-cylinder-group spinlocks, but that's a separate story.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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