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authorAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>2024-05-12 13:30:07 +0200
committerJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2024-06-05 09:52:38 +0200
commit172e422ffea20a89bfdc672741c1aad6fbb5044e (patch)
tree2ac8a1902891722aa44047a41848c446fd35c34a /include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
parent32f88d65f01bf6f45476d7edbe675e44fb9e1d58 (diff)
fsnotify: clear PARENT_WATCHED flags lazily
In some setups directories can have many (usually negative) dentries. Hence __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags() function can take a significant amount of time. Since the bulk of this function happens under inode->i_lock this causes a significant contention on the lock when we remove the watch from the directory as the __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags() call from fsnotify_recalc_mask() races with __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags() calls from __fsnotify_parent() happening on children. This can lead upto softlockup reports reported by users. Fix the problem by calling fsnotify_update_children_dentry_flags() to set PARENT_WATCHED flags only when parent starts watching children. When parent stops watching children, clear false positive PARENT_WATCHED flags lazily in __fsnotify_parent() for each accessed child. Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
index 4dd6143db271..8be029bc50b1 100644
--- a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
+++ b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
@@ -594,12 +594,14 @@ static inline __u32 fsnotify_parent_needed_mask(__u32 mask)
static inline int fsnotify_inode_watches_children(struct inode *inode)
{
+ __u32 parent_mask = READ_ONCE(inode->i_fsnotify_mask);
+
/* FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD is set if the inode may care */
- if (!(inode->i_fsnotify_mask & FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD))
+ if (!(parent_mask & FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD))
return 0;
/* this inode might care about child events, does it care about the
* specific set of events that can happen on a child? */
- return inode->i_fsnotify_mask & FS_EVENTS_POSS_ON_CHILD;
+ return parent_mask & FS_EVENTS_POSS_ON_CHILD;
}
/*
@@ -613,7 +615,7 @@ static inline void fsnotify_update_flags(struct dentry *dentry)
/*
* Serialisation of setting PARENT_WATCHED on the dentries is provided
* by d_lock. If inotify_inode_watched changes after we have taken
- * d_lock, the following __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags call will
+ * d_lock, the following fsnotify_set_children_dentry_flags call will
* find our entry, so it will spin until we complete here, and update
* us with the new state.
*/