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Filipe Manana 16ad3be175 Btrfs: remove unnecessary delalloc mutex for inodes 
The inode delalloc mutex was added a long time ago by commit f248679e86
("Btrfs: add a delalloc mutex to inodes for delalloc reservations"), and
the reason for its introduction is not very clear from the change log. It
claims it solves bogus warnings from lockdep, however it lacks an example
report/warning from lockdep, or any explanation.

Since we have enough concurrentcy protection from the locks of the space
info and block reserve objects, and such lockdep warnings don't seem to
exist anymore (at least on a 5.3 kernel I couldn't get them with fstests,
ltp, fs_mark, etc), remove it, simplifying things a bit and decreasing
the size of the btrfs_inode structure. With some quick fio tests doing
direct IO and mmap writes I couldn't observe any significant performance
increase either (direct IO writes that don't increase the file's size
don't hold the inode's lock for their entire duration and mmap writes
don't hold the inode's lock at all), which are the only type of writes
that could see any performance gain due to less serialization.

Review feedback from Josef:

The problem was taking the i_mutex in mmap, which is how I was
protecting delalloc reservations originally.  The delalloc mutex didn't
come with all of the other dependencies.  That's what the lockdep
messages were about, removing the lock isn't going to make them appear
again.

We _had_ to lock around this because we used to do tricks to keep from
over-reserving, and if we didn't serialize delalloc reservations we'd
end up with ugly accounting problems when we tried to clean things up.

However with my recentish changes this isn't the case anymore.  Every
operation is responsible for reserving its space, and then adding it to
the inode.  Then cleaning up is straightforward and can't be mucked up
by other users.  So we no longer need the delalloc mutex to safe us from
ourselves.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2019-11-18 17:51:46 +01:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-11-16 16:10:59 -08:00
block iocost: check active_list of all the ancestors in iocg_activate() 2019-11-14 13:56:54 -07:00
certs PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() 2019-08-05 18:40:18 -04:00
crypto Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
Documentation Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-11-12 10:53:24 -08:00
drivers Merge branch 'i2c/for-current' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2019-11-17 08:15:41 -08:00
fs Btrfs: remove unnecessary delalloc mutex for inodes 2019-11-18 17:51:46 +01:00
include btrfs: add dedicated members for start and length of a block group 2019-11-18 17:51:45 +01:00
init Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: convert to use built-in RCU list checking 2019-09-25 17:51:41 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-11-17 08:30:38 -08:00
lib lib/xz: fix XZ_DYNALLOC to avoid useless memory reallocations 2019-11-15 18:34:00 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm/debug.c: PageAnon() is true for PageKsm() pages 2019-11-15 18:34:00 -08:00
net ipmr: Fix skb headroom in ipmr_get_route(). 2019-11-16 13:06:54 -08:00
samples samples/bpf: fix build by setting HAVE_ATTR_TEST to zero 2019-10-31 21:39:15 +01:00
scripts arm64 fix for -rc8 / final 2019-11-15 09:14:23 -08:00
security efi/efi_test: Lock down /dev/efi_test and require CAP_SYS_ADMIN 2019-10-31 09:40:21 +01:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Fix incorrect size check for processing/extension units 2019-11-14 18:01:22 +01:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-16 15:52:00 -08:00
usr kbuild: update compile-test header list for v5.4-rc2 2019-10-05 15:29:49 +09:00
virt KVM: Add a comment describing the /dev/kvm no_compat handling 2019-11-15 10:14:04 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
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.mailmap ARM: SoC fixes 2019-11-10 13:41:59 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Simon as Renesas SoC Co-Maintainer 2019-10-10 08:12:51 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS IOMMU Fixes for Linux v5.4-rc7 2019-11-17 11:27:44 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.4-rc8 2019-11-17 14:47:30 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.