From f03c65993b98eeb909a4012ce7833c5857d74755 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:30:21 -0500 Subject: sanitize vfsmount refcounting changes Instead of splitting refcount between (per-cpu) mnt_count and (SMP-only) mnt_longrefs, make all references contribute to mnt_count again and keep track of how many are longterm ones. Accounting rules for longterm count: * 1 for each fs_struct.root.mnt * 1 for each fs_struct.pwd.mnt * 1 for having non-NULL ->mnt_ns * decrement to 0 happens only under vfsmount lock exclusive That allows nice common case for mntput() - since we can't drop the final reference until after mnt_longterm has reached 0 due to the rules above, mntput() can grab vfsmount lock shared and check mnt_longterm. If it turns out to be non-zero (which is the common case), we know that this is not the final mntput() and can just blindly decrement percpu mnt_count. Otherwise we grab vfsmount lock exclusive and do usual decrement-and-check of percpu mnt_count. For fs_struct.c we have mnt_make_longterm() and mnt_make_shortterm(); namespace.c uses the latter in places where we don't already hold vfsmount lock exclusive and opencodes a few remaining spots where we need to manipulate mnt_longterm. Note that we mostly revert the code outside of fs/namespace.c back to what we used to have; in particular, normal code doesn't need to care about two kinds of references, etc. And we get to keep the optimization Nick's variant had bought us... Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- include/linux/path.h | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/path.h') diff --git a/include/linux/path.h b/include/linux/path.h index a581e8c06533..edc98dec6266 100644 --- a/include/linux/path.h +++ b/include/linux/path.h @@ -10,9 +10,7 @@ struct path { }; extern void path_get(struct path *); -extern void path_get_long(struct path *); extern void path_put(struct path *); -extern void path_put_long(struct path *); static inline int path_equal(const struct path *path1, const struct path *path2) { -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b