The superblock carries two counters: s_active, the active reference count that keeps the filesystem usable, and s_count, the passive reference count that merely keeps the structure itself alive. Turn the passive count into a refcount_t and rename it to s_passive to make the pairing with s_active obvious.
Everything is still serialized by sb_lock, so there is no functional change; the conversion buys the usual refcount_t saturation and underflow checking. The following patches start dropping passive references without holding sb_lock and make the device-to-superblock table hold one passive reference per registered entry, which a plain integer cannot support. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <[email protected]> --- fs/super.c | 18 +++++++++--------- include/linux/fs/super_types.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c index a8fd61136aaf..25dd72b550e0 100644 --- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ static bool super_flags(const struct super_block *sb, unsigned int flags) * creation will succeed and SB_BORN is set by vfs_get_tree() or we're * woken and we'll see SB_DYING. * - * The caller must have acquired a temporary reference on @sb->s_count. + * The caller must have acquired a temporary reference on @sb->s_passive. * * Return: The function returns true if SB_BORN was set and with * s_umount held. The function returns false if SB_DYING was @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ static struct super_block *alloc_super(struct file_system_type *type, int flags, spin_lock_init(&s->s_inode_wblist_lock); fserror_mount(s); - s->s_count = 1; + refcount_set(&s->s_passive, 1); atomic_set(&s->s_active, 1); mutex_init(&s->s_vfs_rename_mutex); lockdep_set_class(&s->s_vfs_rename_mutex, &type->s_vfs_rename_key); @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ static struct super_block *alloc_super(struct file_system_type *type, int flags, */ static void __put_super(struct super_block *s) { - if (!--s->s_count) { + if (refcount_dec_and_test(&s->s_passive)) { list_del_init(&s->s_list); WARN_ON(s->s_dentry_lru.node); WARN_ON(s->s_inode_lru.node); @@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ static bool grab_super(struct super_block *sb) { bool locked; - sb->s_count++; + refcount_inc(&sb->s_passive); spin_unlock(&sb_lock); locked = super_lock_excl(sb); if (locked) { @@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ static bool grab_super(struct super_block *sb) * lock held in read mode in case of success. On successful return, * the caller must drop the s_umount lock when done. * - * Note that unlike get_super() et.al. this one does *not* bump ->s_count. + * Note that unlike get_super() et.al. this one does *not* bump ->s_passive. * The reason why it's safe is that we are OK with doing trylock instead * of down_read(). There's a couple of places that are OK with that, but * it's very much not a general-purpose interface. @@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ static void __iterate_supers(void (*f)(struct super_block *, void *), void *arg, sb = next_super(sb, flags)) { if (super_flags(sb, SB_DYING)) continue; - sb->s_count++; + refcount_inc(&sb->s_passive); spin_unlock(&sb_lock); if (flags & SUPER_ITER_UNLOCKED) { @@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ void iterate_supers_type(struct file_system_type *type, if (super_flags(sb, SB_DYING)) continue; - sb->s_count++; + refcount_inc(&sb->s_passive); spin_unlock(&sb_lock); locked = super_lock_shared(sb); @@ -935,7 +935,7 @@ struct super_block *user_get_super(dev_t dev, bool excl) if (sb->s_dev != dev) continue; - sb->s_count++; + refcount_inc(&sb->s_passive); spin_unlock(&sb_lock); locked = super_lock(sb, excl); @@ -1369,7 +1369,7 @@ static struct super_block *bdev_super_lock(struct block_device *bdev, bool excl) /* Make sure sb doesn't go away from under us */ spin_lock(&sb_lock); - sb->s_count++; + refcount_inc(&sb->s_passive); spin_unlock(&sb_lock); mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_holder_lock); diff --git a/include/linux/fs/super_types.h b/include/linux/fs/super_types.h index ef7941e9dc79..68747182abf9 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs/super_types.h +++ b/include/linux/fs/super_types.h @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ struct super_block { unsigned long s_magic; struct dentry *s_root; struct rw_semaphore s_umount; - int s_count; + refcount_t s_passive; atomic_t s_active; #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY void *s_security; -- 2.47.3
