Btrfs: race free update of commit root for ro snapshots
This is a better solution for the problem addressed in the following commit: Btrfs: update commit root on snapshot creation after orphan cleanup (3821f348) The previous solution wasn't the best because of 2 reasons: 1) It added another full transaction commit, which is more expensive than just swapping the commit root with the root; 2) If a reboot happened after the first transaction commit (the one that creates the snapshot) and before the second transaction commit, then we would end up with the same problem if a send using that snapshot was requested before the first transaction commit after the reboot. This change addresses those 2 issues. The second issue is addressed by switching the commit root in the dentry lookup VFS callback, which is also called by the snapshot/subvol creation ioctl and performs orphan cleanup if needed. Like the vfs, the ioctl locks the parent inode too, preventing race issues between a dentry lookup and snapshot creation. Cc: Alex Lyakas <alex.btrfs@zadarastorage.com> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
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