From 71c5576fbd809f2015f4eddf72e501e298720cf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Morton Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:14:13 -0800 Subject: revert "percpu counter: clean up percpu_counter_sum_and_set()" Revert commit 1f7c14c62ce63805f9574664a6c6de3633d4a354 Author: Mingming Cao Date: Thu Oct 9 12:50:59 2008 -0400 percpu counter: clean up percpu_counter_sum_and_set() Before this patch we had the following: percpu_counter_sum(): return the percpu_counter's value percpu_counter_sum_and_set(): return the percpu_counter's value, copying that value into the central value and zeroing the per-cpu counters before returning. After this patch, percpu_counter_sum_and_set() has gone, and percpu_counter_sum() gets the old percpu_counter_sum_and_set() functionality. Problem is, as Eric points out, the old percpu_counter_sum_and_set() functionality was racy and wrong. It zeroes out counters on "other" cpus, without holding any locks which will prevent races agaist updates from those other CPUS. This patch reverts 1f7c14c62ce63805f9574664a6c6de3633d4a354. This means that percpu_counter_sum_and_set() still has the race, but percpu_counter_sum() does not. Note that this is not a simple revert - ext4 has since started using percpu_counter_sum() for its dirty_blocks counter as well. Note that this revert patch changes percpu_counter_sum() semantics. Before the patch, a call to percpu_counter_sum() will bring the counter's central counter mostly up-to-date, so a following percpu_counter_read() will return a close value. After this patch, a call to percpu_counter_sum() will leave the counter's central accumulator unaltered, so a subsequent call to percpu_counter_read() can now return a significantly inaccurate result. If there is any code in the tree which was introduced after e8ced39d5e8911c662d4d69a342b9d053eaaac4e was merged, and which depends upon the new percpu_counter_sum() semantics, that code will break. Reported-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mingming Cao Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/ext4/balloc.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/ext4') diff --git a/fs/ext4/balloc.c b/fs/ext4/balloc.c index d2003cdc36aa..c17f69bcd7dd 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/balloc.c @@ -609,8 +609,8 @@ int ext4_has_free_blocks(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi, s64 nblocks) if (free_blocks - (nblocks + root_blocks + dirty_blocks) < EXT4_FREEBLOCKS_WATERMARK) { - free_blocks = percpu_counter_sum(fbc); - dirty_blocks = percpu_counter_sum(dbc); + free_blocks = percpu_counter_sum_and_set(fbc); + dirty_blocks = percpu_counter_sum_and_set(dbc); if (dirty_blocks < 0) { printk(KERN_CRIT "Dirty block accounting " "went wrong %lld\n", -- cgit v1.2.3