On Sun 12-02-12 21:13:25, Al Viro wrote:

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:03:00AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:

quoted

In quota code we need to find a superblock corresponding to a device and wait
for superblock to be unfrozen. However this waiting has to happen without
s_umount semaphore because that is required for superblock to thaw. So provide
a function in VFS for this to keep dances with s_umount where they belong.

Eww...  All it takes is
struct super_block *get_super_thawed(struct block_device *bdev)
{
        while (1) {
                struct super_block *s = get_super(bdev);
                if (!s || s->s_frozen == SB_UNFROZEN)
                        return s;
		up_read(&s->s_umount);
		vfs_check_frozen(s, SB_FREEZE_WRITE);
		put_super(s);
        }
}
and there's no need of extra arguments, etc. whatsoever.  Both patches
applied, with implementation of get_super_thawed() done as above.

  Yeah, this looks better. Thanks!

									Honza
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Jan Kara [off-list ref]
SUSE Labs, CR