From 172e422ffea20a89bfdc672741c1aad6fbb5044e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amir Goldstein Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 13:30:07 +0200 Subject: fsnotify: clear PARENT_WATCHED flags lazily In some setups directories can have many (usually negative) dentries. Hence __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags() function can take a significant amount of time. Since the bulk of this function happens under inode->i_lock this causes a significant contention on the lock when we remove the watch from the directory as the __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags() call from fsnotify_recalc_mask() races with __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags() calls from __fsnotify_parent() happening on children. This can lead upto softlockup reports reported by users. Fix the problem by calling fsnotify_update_children_dentry_flags() to set PARENT_WATCHED flags only when parent starts watching children. When parent stops watching children, clear false positive PARENT_WATCHED flags lazily in __fsnotify_parent() for each accessed child. Suggested-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Stephen Brennan Signed-off-by: Jan Kara --- include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h index 4dd6143db271..8be029bc50b1 100644 --- a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h +++ b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h @@ -594,12 +594,14 @@ static inline __u32 fsnotify_parent_needed_mask(__u32 mask) static inline int fsnotify_inode_watches_children(struct inode *inode) { + __u32 parent_mask = READ_ONCE(inode->i_fsnotify_mask); + /* FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD is set if the inode may care */ - if (!(inode->i_fsnotify_mask & FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD)) + if (!(parent_mask & FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD)) return 0; /* this inode might care about child events, does it care about the * specific set of events that can happen on a child? */ - return inode->i_fsnotify_mask & FS_EVENTS_POSS_ON_CHILD; + return parent_mask & FS_EVENTS_POSS_ON_CHILD; } /* @@ -613,7 +615,7 @@ static inline void fsnotify_update_flags(struct dentry *dentry) /* * Serialisation of setting PARENT_WATCHED on the dentries is provided * by d_lock. If inotify_inode_watched changes after we have taken - * d_lock, the following __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags call will + * d_lock, the following fsnotify_set_children_dentry_flags call will * find our entry, so it will spin until we complete here, and update * us with the new state. */ -- cgit v1.3.1