Merge tag 'vfs-5.10-fixes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux

Pull fs freeze fix and cleanups from Darrick Wong:
 "A single vfs fix for 5.10, along with two subsequent cleanups.

  A very long time ago, a hack was added to the vfs fs freeze protection
  code to work around lockdep complaints about XFS, which would try to
  run a transaction (which requires intwrite protection) to finalize an
  xfs freeze (by which time the vfs had already taken intwrite).

  Fast forward a few years, and XFS fixed the recursive intwrite problem
  on its own, and the hack became unnecessary. Fast forward almost a
  decade, and latent bugs in the code converting this hack from freeze
  flags to freeze locks combine with lockdep bugs to make this reproduce
  frequently enough to notice page faults racing with freeze.

  Since the hack is unnecessary and causes thread race errors, just get
  rid of it completely. Making this kind of vfs change midway through a
  cycle makes me nervous, but a large enough number of the usual
  VFS/ext4/XFS/btrfs suspects have said this looks good and solves a
  real problem vector.

  And once that removal is done, __sb_start_write is now simple enough
  that it becomes possible to refactor the function into smaller,
  simpler static inline helpers in linux/fs.h. The cleanup is
  straightforward.

  Summary:

   - Finally remove the "convert to trylock" weirdness in the fs freezer
     code. It was necessary 10 years ago to deal with nested
     transactions in XFS, but we've long since removed that; and now
     this is causing subtle race conditions when lockdep goes offline
     and sb_start_* aren't prepared to retry a trylock failure.

   - Minor cleanups of the sb_start_* fs freeze helpers"

* tag 'vfs-5.10-fixes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux:
  vfs: move __sb_{start,end}_write* to fs.h
  vfs: separate __sb_start_write into blocking and non-blocking helpers
  vfs: remove lockdep bogosity in __sb_start_write

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 49 deletions

diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index a51c2083cd6b..98bb0629ee10 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -1631,55 +1631,6 @@ int super_setup_bdi(struct super_block *sb)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(super_setup_bdi);
 
-/*
- * This is an internal function, please use sb_end_{write,pagefault,intwrite}
- * instead.
- */
-void __sb_end_write(struct super_block *sb, int level)
-{
-	percpu_up_read(sb->s_writers.rw_sem + level-1);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(__sb_end_write);
-
-/*
- * This is an internal function, please use sb_start_{write,pagefault,intwrite}
- * instead.
- */
-int __sb_start_write(struct super_block *sb, int level, bool wait)
-{
-	bool force_trylock = false;
-	int ret = 1;
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
-	/*
-	 * We want lockdep to tell us about possible deadlocks with freezing
-	 * but it's it bit tricky to properly instrument it. Getting a freeze
-	 * protection works as getting a read lock but there are subtle
-	 * problems. XFS for example gets freeze protection on internal level
-	 * twice in some cases, which is OK only because we already hold a
-	 * freeze protection also on higher level. Due to these cases we have
-	 * to use wait == F (trylock mode) which must not fail.
-	 */
-	if (wait) {
-		int i;
-
-		for (i = 0; i < level - 1; i++)
-			if (percpu_rwsem_is_held(sb->s_writers.rw_sem + i)) {
-				force_trylock = true;
-				break;
-			}
-	}
-#endif
-	if (wait && !force_trylock)
-		percpu_down_read(sb->s_writers.rw_sem + level-1);
-	else
-		ret = percpu_down_read_trylock(sb->s_writers.rw_sem + level-1);
-
-	WARN_ON(force_trylock && !ret);
-	return ret;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(__sb_start_write);
-
 /**
  * sb_wait_write - wait until all writers to given file system finish
  * @sb: the super for which we wait