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Recent patches experiment with making it possible to allocate a new superblock before opening the relevant block device. Naturally this has intricate side-effects that we get to learn about while developing this. Superblock allocators such as sget{_fc}() return with s_umount of the new superblock held and lock ordering currently requires that block level locks such as bdev_lock and open_mutex rank above s_umount. Before aca740c ("fs: open block device after superblock creation") ordering was guaranteed to be correct as block devices were opened prior to superblock allocation and thus s_umount wasn't held. But now s_umount must be dropped before opening block devices to avoid locking violations. This has consequences. The main one being that iterators over @super_blocks and @fs_supers that grab a temporary reference to the superblock can now also grab s_umount before the caller has managed to open block devices and called fill_super(). So whereas before such iterators or concurrent mounts would have simply slept on s_umount until SB_BORN was set or the superblock was discard due to initalization failure they can now needlessly spin through sget{_fc}(). If the caller is sleeping on bdev_lock or open_mutex one caller waiting on SB_BORN will always spin somewhere and potentially this can go on for quite a while. It should be possible to drop s_umount while allowing iterators to wait on a nascent superblock to either be born or discarded. This patch implements a wait_var_event() mechanism allowing iterators to sleep until they are woken when the superblock is born or discarded. This also allows us to avoid relooping through @fs_supers and @super_blocks if a superblock isn't yet born or dying. Link: aca740c ("fs: open block device after superblock creation") Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Message-Id: <20230818-vfs-super-fixes-v3-v3-3-9f0b1876e46b@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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