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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst index de12016ee419..6a238477f27f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst @@ -23,13 +23,15 @@ exclusive. locks victim and calls the method. Locks are exclusive. 4) rename() that is _not_ cross-directory. Locking rules: caller locks -the parent and finds source and target. In case of exchange (with -RENAME_EXCHANGE in flags argument) lock both. In any case, -if the target already exists, lock it. If the source is a non-directory, -lock it. If we need to lock both, lock them in inode pointer order. -Then call the method. All locks are exclusive. -NB: we might get away with locking the the source (and target in exchange -case) shared. +the parent and finds source and target. Then we decide which of the +source and target need to be locked. Source needs to be locked if it's a +non-directory; target - if it's a non-directory or about to be removed. +Take the locks that need to be taken, in inode pointer order if need +to take both (that can happen only when both source and target are +non-directories - the source because it wouldn't be locked otherwise +and the target because mixing directory and non-directory is allowed +only with RENAME_EXCHANGE, and that won't be removing the target). +After the locks had been taken, call the method. All locks are exclusive. 5) link creation. Locking rules: @@ -44,19 +46,22 @@ All locks are exclusive. rules: * lock the filesystem - * lock parents in "ancestors first" order. + * lock parents in "ancestors first" order. If one is not ancestor of + the other, lock the parent of source first. * find source and target. * if old parent is equal to or is a descendent of target fail with -ENOTEMPTY * if new parent is equal to or is a descendent of source fail with -ELOOP - * If it's an exchange, lock both the source and the target. - * If the target exists, lock it. If the source is a non-directory, - lock it. If we need to lock both, do so in inode pointer order. + * Lock both the source and the target provided they exist. If we + need to lock two inodes of different type (dir vs non-dir), we lock + the directory first. If we need to lock two inodes of the same type, + lock them in inode pointer order. + * Lock subdirectories involved (source before target). + * Lock non-directories involved, in inode pointer order. * call the method. -All ->i_rwsem are taken exclusive. Again, we might get away with locking -the the source (and target in exchange case) shared. +All ->i_rwsem are taken exclusive. The rules above obviously guarantee that all directories that are going to be read, modified or removed by method will be locked by caller. @@ -66,8 +71,10 @@ If no directory is its own ancestor, the scheme above is deadlock-free. Proof: - First of all, at any moment we have a partial ordering of the - objects - A < B iff A is an ancestor of B. +[XXX: will be updated once we are done massaging the lock_rename()] + First of all, at any moment we have a linear ordering of the + objects - A < B iff (A is an ancestor of B) or (B is not an ancestor + of A and ptr(A) < ptr(B)). That ordering can change. However, the following is true: |