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SubjectRe: fsnotify_mark_srcu wtf?
On Fri 02-12-16 09:26:51, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 8:46 PM, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> > On Wed 09-11-16 20:26:16, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> >> On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> >> > And this does not work as well... Fanotify must notify groups by their
> >> > priority so you cannot arbitrarily reorder ordering in which groups get
> >> > notified. I'm currently pondering on using mark refcount to pin it when
> >> > processing permission event but there are still some details to check.
> >> >
> >>
> >> All right, mark refcount sound like the proper solution.
> >
> > Except it doesn't quite work. We can pin the current marks by a refcount
> > but they can still be removed from the list so after we regain srcu lock,
> > we are not sure their ->next pointers still point to still allocated marks
> > :-| Sadly I realized this only after implementing all this.
>
> Hmm, how about this: when removing mark from inode, drop refcount. If
> refcount is zero can remove from list. Otherwise mark the mark "dead"
> and leave it on the list.
>
> And fsnotify can just skip dead marks.

I had this idea as well and when trying to implement this, I've stumbled
over some problems. I think the biggest problem was that destruction of a
notification mark is relatively complex operation (doing iput() for
example) and quite a few places dropping mark references are in a context
where this can cause problems. Also I don't want to defer iput() to a
workqueue as that will have unexpected consequences such as unlinked
watched inode lingering in the system (possibly colliding with umount
etc.).

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

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