fix block device size update serialization
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Fri Aug 21 04:55:58 EDT 2020
Hi Jens,
this series fixes how we update i_size for the block device inodes (and
thus the block device). Different helpers use two different locks
(bd_mutex and i_rwsem) to protect the update, and it appears device
mapper uses yet another internal lock. A lot of the drivers do the
update handcrafted in often crufty ways. And in addition to that mess
it turns out that the "main" lock, bd_mutex is pretty dead lock prone
vs other spots in the block layer that acquire it during revalidation
operations, as reported by Xianting.
Fix all that by adding a dedicated spinlock just for the size updates.
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