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    jbd2: Make state lock a spinlock · 46417064
    Thomas Gleixner authored
    Bit-spinlocks are problematic on PREEMPT_RT if functions which might sleep
    on RT, e.g. spin_lock(), alloc/free(), are invoked inside the lock held
    region because bit spinlocks disable preemption even on RT.
    
    A first attempt was to replace state lock with a spinlock placed in struct
    buffer_head and make the locking conditional on PREEMPT_RT and
    DEBUG_BIT_SPINLOCKS.
    
    Jan pointed out that there is a 4 byte hole in struct journal_head where a
    regular spinlock fits in and he would not object to convert the state lock
    to a spinlock unconditionally.
    
    Aside of solving the RT problem, this also gains lockdep coverage for the
    journal head state lock (bit-spinlocks are not covered by lockdep as it's
    hard to fit a lockdep map into a single bit).
    
    The trivial change would have been to convert the jbd_*lock_bh_state()
    inlines, but that comes with the downside that these functions take a
    buffer head pointer which needs to be converted to a journal head pointer
    which adds another level of indirection.
    
    As almost all functions which use this lock have a journal head pointer
    readily available, it makes more sense to remove the lock helper inlines
    and write out spin_*lock() at all call sites.
    
    Fixup all locking comments as well.
    Suggested-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>
    Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
    Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
    Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
    Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190809124233.13277-7-jack@suse.czSigned-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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