Loading fs/jffs2/README.Locking +21 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -150,3 +150,24 @@ the buffer. Ordering constraints: Lock wbuf_sem last, after the alloc_sem or and f->sem. c->xattr_sem ------------ This read/write semaphore protects against concurrent access to the xattr related objects which include stuff in superblock and ic->xref. In read-only path, write-semaphore is too much exclusion. It's enough by read-semaphore. But you must hold write-semaphore when updating, creating or deleting any xattr related object. Once xattr_sem released, there would be no assurance for the existence of those objects. Thus, a series of processes is often required to retry, when updating such a object is necessary under holding read semaphore. For example, do_jffs2_getxattr() holds read-semaphore to scan xref and xdatum at first. But it retries this process with holding write-semaphore after release read-semaphore, if it's necessary to load name/value pair from medium. Ordering constraints: Lock xattr_sem last, after the alloc_sem. Loading
fs/jffs2/README.Locking +21 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -150,3 +150,24 @@ the buffer. Ordering constraints: Lock wbuf_sem last, after the alloc_sem or and f->sem. c->xattr_sem ------------ This read/write semaphore protects against concurrent access to the xattr related objects which include stuff in superblock and ic->xref. In read-only path, write-semaphore is too much exclusion. It's enough by read-semaphore. But you must hold write-semaphore when updating, creating or deleting any xattr related object. Once xattr_sem released, there would be no assurance for the existence of those objects. Thus, a series of processes is often required to retry, when updating such a object is necessary under holding read semaphore. For example, do_jffs2_getxattr() holds read-semaphore to scan xref and xdatum at first. But it retries this process with holding write-semaphore after release read-semaphore, if it's necessary to load name/value pair from medium. Ordering constraints: Lock xattr_sem last, after the alloc_sem.