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authorJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>2013-10-10 14:36:00 +0900
committerAndreas Blaesius <skate4life@gmx.de>2016-06-05 21:20:43 +0200
commit94d312cdd9972b046e934200a0e8154a2fd6c6cc (patch)
tree3a8589de6a3c389263841318ef0db0fbcda39cb7
parent78b42d2e683565d861d87abf1869c961e588fc7c (diff)
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f2fs: fix the starvation problem on cp_rwsem
This patch removes the logic previously introduced to address the starvation on cp_rwsem. One potential there-in bug is that we should cover the wait.list with spin_lock, but the previous code broke this rule. And, actually current rwsem handles this starvation issue reasonably, so that we didn't need to do this before neither. Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
-rw-r--r--fs/f2fs/f2fs.h13
-rw-r--r--fs/f2fs/super.c1
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
index 031c197..632debb 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@
#include <linux/crc32.h>
#include <linux/magic.h>
#include <linux/kobject.h>
-#include <linux/wait.h>
-#include <linux/sched.h>
/*
* For mount options
@@ -360,7 +358,6 @@ struct f2fs_sb_info {
struct inode *meta_inode; /* cache meta blocks */
struct mutex cp_mutex; /* checkpoint procedure lock */
struct rw_semaphore cp_rwsem; /* blocking FS operations */
- wait_queue_head_t cp_wait; /* checkpoint wait queue */
struct mutex node_write; /* locking node writes */
struct mutex writepages; /* mutex for writepages() */
int por_doing; /* recovery is doing or not */
@@ -516,13 +513,6 @@ static inline void clear_ckpt_flags(struct f2fs_checkpoint *cp, unsigned int f)
static inline void f2fs_lock_op(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
{
- /*
- * If the checkpoint thread is waiting for cp_rwsem, add cuurent task
- * into wait list to avoid the checkpoint thread starvation
- */
- while (!list_empty(&sbi->cp_rwsem.wait_list))
- wait_event_interruptible(sbi->cp_wait,
- list_empty(&sbi->cp_rwsem.wait_list));
down_read(&sbi->cp_rwsem);
}
@@ -539,9 +529,6 @@ static inline void f2fs_lock_all(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
static inline void f2fs_unlock_all(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
{
up_write(&sbi->cp_rwsem);
-
- /* wake up all tasks blocked by checkpoint */
- wake_up_all(&sbi->cp_wait);
}
/*
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c
index 7f06c60..33df22e 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
@@ -823,7 +823,6 @@ static int f2fs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
spin_lock_init(&sbi->stat_lock);
init_rwsem(&sbi->bio_sem);
init_rwsem(&sbi->cp_rwsem);
- init_waitqueue_head(&sbi->cp_wait);
init_sb_info(sbi);
/* get an inode for meta space */