[PATCH] lockdep: annotate the quota code

The quota code plays interesting games with the lock ordering; to quote Jan:

| i_mutex of inode containing quota file is acquired after all other
| quota locks. i_mutex of all other inodes is acquired before quota
| locks. Quota code makes sure (by resetting inode operations and
| setting special flag on inode) that noone tries to enter quota code
| while holding i_mutex on a quota file...

The good news is that all of this special case i_mutex grabbing happens in the
(per filesystem) low level quota write function.  For this special case we
need a new I_MUTEX_* nesting level, since this just entirely outside any of
the regular VFS locking rules for i_mutex.  I trust Jan on his blue eyes that
this is not ever going to deadlock; and based on that the patch below is what
it takes to inform lockdep of these very interesting new locking rules.

The new locking rule for the I_MUTEX_QUOTA nesting level is that this is the
deepest possible level of nesting for i_mutex, and that this only should be
used in quota write (and possibly read) function of filesystems.  This makes
the lock ordering of the I_MUTEX_* levels:

I_MUTEX_PARENT -> I_MUTEX_CHILD -> I_MUTEX_NORMAL -> I_MUTEX_QUOTA

Has no effect on non-lockdep kernels.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/fs/ext2/super.c b/fs/ext2/super.c
index 9f43879..f2702cd 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/ext2/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/super.c
@@ -1157,7 +1157,7 @@ static ssize_t ext2_quota_write(struct super_block *sb, int type,
        struct buffer_head tmp_bh;
        struct buffer_head *bh;
 
-       mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+       mutex_lock_nested(&inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_QUOTA);
        while (towrite > 0) {
                tocopy = sb->s_blocksize - offset < towrite ?
                                sb->s_blocksize - offset : towrite;

diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c
index f2dd713..813d589 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/ext3/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/super.c
@@ -2614,7 +2614,7 @@ static ssize_t ext3_quota_write(struct super_block *sb, int type,
        struct buffer_head *bh;
        handle_t *handle = journal_current_handle();
 
-       mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+       mutex_lock_nested(&inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_QUOTA);
        while (towrite > 0) {
                tocopy = sb->s_blocksize - offset < towrite ?
                                sb->s_blocksize - offset : towrite;

diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/super.c b/fs/reiserfs/super.c
index 28eb3c8..5567328 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/reiserfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/super.c
@@ -2203,7 +2203,7 @@ static ssize_t reiserfs_quota_write(struct super_block *sb, int type,
        size_t towrite = len;
        struct buffer_head tmp_bh, *bh;
 
-       mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+       mutex_lock_nested(&inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_QUOTA);
        while (towrite > 0) {
                tocopy = sb->s_blocksize - offset < towrite ?
                    sb->s_blocksize - offset : towrite;

diff --git a/fs/ufs/super.c b/fs/ufs/super.c
index 19a9972..992ee0b 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/ufs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ufs/super.c
@@ -1326,7 +1326,7 @@ static ssize_t ufs_quota_write(struct super_block *sb, int type,
        size_t towrite = len;
        struct buffer_head *bh;
 
-       mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+       mutex_lock_nested(&inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_QUOTA);
        while (towrite > 0) {
                tocopy = sb->s_blocksize - offset < towrite ?
                                sb->s_blocksize - offset : towrite;