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    xfs: introduce mmap/truncate lock · 653c60b6
    Dave Chinner authored
    Right now we cannot serialise mmap against truncate or hole punch
    sanely. ->page_mkwrite is not able to take locks that the read IO
    path normally takes (i.e. the inode iolock) because that could
    result in lock inversions (read - iolock - page fault - page_mkwrite
    - iolock) and so we cannot use an IO path lock to serialise page
    write faults against truncate operations.
    
    Instead, introduce a new lock that is used *only* in the
    ->page_mkwrite path that is the equivalent of the iolock. The lock
    ordering in a page fault is i_mmaplock -> page lock -> i_ilock,
    and so in truncate we can i_iolock -> i_mmaplock and so lock out
    new write faults during the process of truncation.
    
    Because i_mmap_lock is outside the page lock, we can hold it across
    all the same operations we hold the i_iolock for. The only
    difference is that we never hold the i_mmaplock in the normal IO
    path and so do not ever have the possibility that we can page fault
    inside it. Hence there are no recursion issues on the i_mmap_lock
    and so we can use it to serialise page fault IO against inode
    modification operations that affect the IO path.
    
    This patch introduces the i_mmaplock infrastructure, lockdep
    annotations and initialisation/destruction code. Use of the new lock
    will be in subsequent patches.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarBrian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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