LTP's iogen01 doio tests used to hang nicely on 32-bit SMP when /tmp was a
authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:34:39 +0000 (15:34 -0400)
committerErez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:20:56 +0000 (18:20 -0500)
commit0b8ee7151c09dd5cdba45ece730250ec292ce7b1
tree6b98814671fa08cddd15091428c9c01d2baff463
parent6cc3c7861e4541d6834a89e9d1e9769854289a73
LTP's iogen01 doio tests used to hang nicely on 32-bit SMP when /tmp was a

unionfs mount of a tmpfs, i_size_read spinning forever, waiting for a lost
seqcount update: fixed by taking i_lock around i_size_write when 32-bit
SMP.

But akpm was dissatisfied with the resulting patch: its lack of
commentary, the #ifs, the nesting around i_size_read, the lack of
attention to i_blocks.  I promised to redo it with the general
spin_lock_32bit() he proposed; but disliked the result, partly because
"32bit" obscures the real constraints, which are best commented within
fsstack_copy_inode_size itself.

This version adds those comments, and uses sizeof comparisons which the
compiler can optimize out, instead of CONFIG_SMP, CONFIG_LSF.
BITS_PER_LONG.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
fs/stack.c
include/linux/fs_stack.h