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=======
Locking
=======

The text below describes the locking rules for VFS-related methods.
It is (believed to be) up-to-date. *Please*, if you change anything in
prototypes or locking protocols - update this file. And update the relevant
instances in the tree, don't leave that to maintainers of filesystems/devices/
etc. At the very least, put the list of dubious cases in the end of this file.
Don't turn it into log - maintainers of out-of-the-tree code are supposed to
be able to use diff(1).

Thing currently missing here: socket operations. Alexey?

dentry_operations
=================

prototypes::

	int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, unsigned int);
	int (*d_weak_revalidate)(struct dentry *, unsigned int);
	int (*d_hash)(const struct dentry *, struct qstr *);
	int (*d_compare)(const struct dentry *,
			unsigned int, const char *, const struct qstr *);
	int (*d_delete)(struct dentry *);
	int (*d_init)(struct dentry *);
	void (*d_release)(struct dentry *);
	void (*d_iput)(struct dentry *, struct inode *);
	char *(*d_dname)((struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen);
	struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *path);
	int (*d_manage)(const struct path *, bool);
	struct dentry *(*d_real)(struct dentry *, const struct inode *);

locking rules:

================== ===========	========	==============	========
ops		   rename_lock	->d_lock	may block	rcu-walk
================== ===========	========	==============	========
d_revalidate:	   no		no		yes (ref-walk)	maybe
d_weak_revalidate: no		no		yes	 	no
d_hash		   no		no		no		maybe
d_compare:	   yes		no		no		maybe
d_delete:	   no		yes		no		no
d_init:		   no		no		yes		no
d_release:	   no		no		yes		no
d_prune:           no		yes		no		no
d_iput:		   no		no		yes		no
d_dname:	   no		no		no		no
d_automount:	   no		no		yes		no
d_manage:	   no		no		yes (ref-walk)	maybe
d_real		   no		no		yes 		no
================== ===========	========	==============	========

inode_operations
================

prototypes::

	int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t, bool);
	struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, unsigned int);
	int (*link) (struct dentry *,struct inode *,struct dentry *);
	int (*unlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *);
	int (*symlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,const char *);
	int (*mkdir) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t);
	int (*rmdir) (struct inode *,struct dentry *);
	int (*mknod) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t,dev_t);
	int (*rename) (struct inode *, struct dentry *,
			struct inode *, struct dentry *, unsigned int);
	int (*readlink) (struct dentry *, char __user *,int);
	const char *(*get_link) (struct dentry *, struct inode *, struct delayed_call *);
	void (*truncate) (struct inode *);
	int (*permission) (struct inode *, int, unsigned int);
	int (*get_acl)(struct inode *, int);
	int (*setattr) (struct dentry *, struct iattr *);
	int (*getattr) (const struct path *, struct kstat *, u32, unsigned int);
	ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t);
	int (*fiemap)(struct inode *, struct fiemap_extent_info *, u64 start, u64 len);
	void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int);
	int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *,
				struct file *, unsigned open_flag,
				umode_t create_mode);
	int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t);

locking rules:
	all may block

============	=============================================
ops		i_rwsem(inode)
============	=============================================
lookup:		shared
create:		exclusive
link:		exclusive (both)
mknod:		exclusive
symlink:	exclusive
mkdir:		exclusive
unlink:		exclusive (both)
rmdir:		exclusive (both)(see below)
rename:		exclusive (all)	(see below)
readlink:	no
get_link:	no
setattr:	exclusive
permission:	no (may not block if called in rcu-walk mode)
get_acl:	no
getattr:	no
listxattr:	no
fiemap:		no
update_time:	no
atomic_open:	shared (exclusive if O_CREAT is set in open flags)
tmpfile:	no
============	=============================================


	Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_rwsem
	exclusive on victim.
	cross-directory ->rename() has (per-superblock) ->s_vfs_rename_sem.

See Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst for more detailed discussion
of the locking scheme for directory operations.

xattr_handler operations
========================

prototypes::

	bool (*list)(struct dentry *dentry);
	int (*get)(const struct xattr_handler *handler, struct dentry *dentry,
		   struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *buffer,
		   size_t size);
	int (*set)(const struct xattr_handler *handler,
                   struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
                   struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode, const char *name,
                   const void *buffer, size_t size, int flags);

locking rules:
	all may block

=====		==============
ops		i_rwsem(inode)
=====		==============
list:		no
get:		no
set:		exclusive
=====		==============

super_operations
================

prototypes::

	struct inode *(*alloc_inode)(struct super_block *sb);
	void (*free_inode)(struct inode *);
	void (*destroy_inode)(struct inode *);
	void (*dirty_inode) (struct inode *, int flags);
	int (*write_inode) (struct inode *, struct writeback_control *wbc);
	int (*drop_inode) (struct inode *);
	void (*evict_inode) (struct inode *);
	void (*put_super) (struct super_block *);
	int (*sync_fs)(struct super_block *sb, int wait);
	int (*freeze_fs) (struct super_block *);
	int (*unfreeze_fs) (struct super_block *);
	int (*statfs) (struct dentry *, struct kstatfs *);
	int (*remount_fs) (struct super_block *, int *, char *);
	void (*umount_begin) (struct super_block *);
	int (*show_options)(struct seq_file *, struct dentry *);
	ssize_t (*quota_read)(struct super_block *, int, char *, size_t, loff_t);
	ssize_t (*quota_write)(struct super_block *, int, const char *, size_t, loff_t);
	int (*bdev_try_to_free_page)(struct super_block*, struct page*, gfp_t);

locking rules:
	All may block [not true, see below]

======================	============	========================
ops			s_umount	note
======================	============	========================
alloc_inode:
free_inode:				called from RCU callback
destroy_inode:
dirty_inode:
write_inode:
drop_inode:				!!!inode->i_lock!!!
evict_inode:
put_super:		write
sync_fs:		read
freeze_fs:		write
unfreeze_fs:		write
statfs:			maybe(read)	(see below)
remount_fs:		write
umount_begin:		no
show_options:		no		(namespace_sem)
quota_read:		no		(see below)
quota_write:		no		(see below)
bdev_try_to_free_page:	no		(see below)
======================	============	========================

->statfs() has s_umount (shared) when called by ustat(2) (native or
compat), but that's an accident of bad API; s_umount is used to pin
the superblock down when we only have dev_t given us by userland to
identify the superblock.  Everything else (statfs(), fstatfs(), etc.)
doesn't hold it when calling ->statfs() - superblock is pinned down
by resolving the pathname passed to syscall.

->quota_read() and ->quota_write() functions are both guaranteed to
be the only ones operating on the quota file by the quota code (via
dqio_sem) (unless an admin really wants to screw up something and
writes to quota files with quotas on). For other details about locking
see also dquot_operations section.

->bdev_try_to_free_page is called from the ->releasepage handler of
the block device inode.  See there for more details.

file_system_type
================

prototypes::

	struct dentry *(*mount) (struct file_system_type *, int,
		       const char *, void *);
	void (*kill_sb) (struct super_block *);

locking rules:

=======		=========
ops		may block
=======		=========
mount		yes
kill_sb		yes
=======		=========

->mount() returns ERR_PTR or the root dentry; its superblock should be locked
on return.

->kill_sb() takes a write-locked superblock, does all shutdown work on it,
unlocks and drops the reference.

address_space_operations
========================
prototypes::

	int (*writepage)(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc);
	int (*readpage)(struct file *, struct page *);
	int (*writepages)(struct address_space *, struct writeback_control *);
	int (*set_page_dirty)(struct page *page);
	void (*readahead)(struct readahead_control *);
	int (*readpages)(struct file *filp, struct address_space *mapping,
			struct list_head *pages, unsigned nr_pages);
	int (*write_begin)(struct file *, struct address_space *mapping,
				loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags,
				struct page **pagep, void **fsdata);
	int (*write_end)(struct file *, struct address_space *mapping,
				loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned copied,
				struct page *page, void *fsdata);
	sector_t (*bmap)(struct address_space *, sector_t);
	void (*invalidatepage) (struct page *, unsigned int, unsigned int);
	int (*releasepage) (struct page *, int);
	void (*freepage)(struct page *);
	int (*direct_IO)(struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *iter);
	bool (*isolate_page) (struct page *, isolate_mode_t);
	int (*migratepage)(struct address_space *, struct page *, struct page *);
	void (*putback_page) (struct page *);
	int (*launder_page)(struct page *);
	int (*is_partially_uptodate)(struct page *, unsigned long, unsigned long);
	int (*error_remove_page)(struct address_space *, struct page *);
	int (*swap_activate)(struct file *);
	int (*swap_deactivate)(struct file *);

locking rules:
	All except set_page_dirty and freepage may block

======================	======================== =========
ops			PageLocked(page)	 i_rwsem
======================	======================== =========
writepage:		yes, unlocks (see below)
readpage:		yes, unlocks
writepages:
set_page_dirty		no
readahead:		yes, unlocks
readpages:		no
write_begin:		locks the page		 exclusive
write_end:		yes, unlocks		 exclusive
bmap:
invalidatepage:		yes
releasepage:		yes
freepage:		yes
direct_IO:
isolate_page:		yes
migratepage:		yes (both)
putback_page:		yes
launder_page:		yes
is_partially_uptodate:	yes
error_remove_page:	yes
swap_activate:		no
swap_deactivate:	no
======================	======================== =========

->write_begin(), ->write_end() and ->readpage() may be called from
the request handler (/dev/loop).

->readpage() unlocks the page, either synchronously or via I/O
completion.

->readahead() unlocks the pages that I/O is attempted on like ->readpage().

->readpages() populates the pagecache with the passed pages and starts
I/O against them.  They come unlocked upon I/O completion.

->writepage() is used for two purposes: for "memory cleansing" and for
"sync".  These are quite different operations and the behaviour may differ
depending upon the mode.

If writepage is called for sync (wbc->sync_mode != WBC_SYNC_NONE) then
it *must* start I/O against the page, even if that would involve
blocking on in-progress I/O.

If writepage is called for memory cleansing (sync_mode ==
WBC_SYNC_NONE) then its role is to get as much writeout underway as
possible.  So writepage should try to avoid blocking against
currently-in-progress I/O.

If the filesystem is not called for "sync" and it determines that it
would need to block against in-progress I/O to be able to start new I/O
against the page the filesystem should redirty the page with
redirty_page_for_writepage(), then unlock the page and return zero.
This may also be done to avoid internal deadlocks, but rarely.

If the filesystem is called for sync then it must wait on any
in-progress I/O and then start new I/O.

The filesystem should unlock the page synchronously, before returning to the
caller, unless ->writepage() returns special WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE
value. WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE means that page cannot really be written out
currently, and VM should stop calling ->writepage() on this page for some
time. VM does this by moving page to the head of the active list, hence the
name.

Unless the filesystem is going to redirty_page_for_writepage(), unlock the page
and return zero, writepage *must* run set_page_writeback() against the page,
followed by unlocking it.  Once set_page_writeback() has been run against the
page, write I/O can be submitted and the write I/O completion handler must run
end_page_writeback() once the I/O is complete.  If no I/O is submitted, the
filesystem must run end_page_writeback() against the page before returning from
writepage.

That is: after 2.5.12, pages which are under writeout are *not* locked.  Note,
if the filesystem needs the page to be locked during writeout, that is ok, too,
the page is allowed to be unlocked at any point in time between the calls to
set_page_writeback() and end_page_writeback().

Note, failure to run either redirty_page_for_writepage() or the combination of
set_page_writeback()/end_page_writeback() on a page submitted to writepage
will leave the page itself marked clean but it will be tagged as dirty in the
radix tree.  This incoherency can lead to all sorts of hard-to-debug problems
in the filesystem like having dirty inodes at umount and losing written data.

->writepages() is used for periodic writeback and for syscall-initiated
sync operations.  The address_space should start I/O against at least
``*nr_to_write`` pages.  ``*nr_to_write`` must be decremented for each page
which is written.  The address_space implementation may write more (or less)
pages than ``*nr_to_write`` asks for, but it should try to be reasonably close.
If nr_to_write is NULL, all dirty pages must be written.

writepages should _only_ write pages which are present on
mapping->io_pages.

->set_page_dirty() is called from various places in the kernel
when the target page is marked as needing writeback.  It may be called
under spinlock (it cannot block) and is sometimes called with the page
not locked.

->bmap() is currently used by legacy ioctl() (FIBMAP) provided by some
filesystems and by the swapper. The latter will eventually go away.  Please,
keep it that way and don't breed new callers.

->invalidatepage() is called when the filesystem must attempt to drop
some or all of the buffers from the page when it is being truncated. It
returns zero on success. If ->invalidatepage is zero, the kernel uses
block_invalidatepage() instead.

->releasepage() is called when the kernel is about to try to drop the
buffers from the page in preparation for freeing it.  It returns zero to
indicate that the buffers are (or may be) freeable.  If ->releasepage is zero,
the kernel assumes that the fs has no private interest in the buffers.

->freepage() is called when the kernel is done dropping the page
from the page cache.

->launder_page() may be called prior to releasing a page if
it is still found to be dirty. It returns zero if the page was successfully
cleaned, or an error value if not. Note that in order to prevent the page
getting mapped back in and redirtied, it needs to be kept locked
across the entire operation.

->swap_activate will be called with a non-zero argument on
files backing (non block device backed) swapfiles. A return value
of zero indicates success, in which case this file can be used for
backing swapspace. The swapspace operations will be proxied to the
address space operations.

->swap_deactivate() will be called in the sys_swapoff()
path after ->swap_activate() returned success.

file_lock_operations
====================

prototypes::

	void (*fl_copy_lock)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *);
	void (*fl_release_private)(struct file_lock *);


locking rules:

===================	=============	=========
ops			inode->i_lock	may block
===================	=============	=========
fl_copy_lock:		yes		no
fl_release_private:	maybe		maybe[1]_
===================	=============	=========

.. [1]:
   ->fl_release_private for flock or POSIX locks is currently allowed
   to block. Leases however can still be freed while the i_lock is held and
   so fl_release_private called on a lease should not block.

lock_manager_operations
=======================

prototypes::

	void (*lm_notify)(struct file_lock *);  /* unblock callback */
	int (*lm_grant)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *, int);
	void (*lm_break)(struct file_lock *); /* break_lease callback */
	int (*lm_change)(struct file_lock **, int);
	bool (*lm_breaker_owns_lease)(struct file_lock *);

locking rules:

======================	=============	=================	=========
ops			inode->i_lock	blocked_lock_lock	may block
======================	=============	=================	=========
lm_notify:		yes		yes			no
lm_grant:		no		no			no
lm_break:		yes		no			no
lm_change		yes		no			no
lm_breaker_owns_lease:	no		no			no
======================	=============	=================	=========

buffer_head
===========

prototypes::

	void (*b_end_io)(struct buffer_head *bh, int uptodate);

locking rules:

called from interrupts. In other words, extreme care is needed here.
bh is locked, but that's all warranties we have here. Currently only RAID1,
highmem, fs/buffer.c, and fs/ntfs/aops.c are providing these. Block devices
call this method upon the IO completion.

block_device_operations
=======================
prototypes::

	int (*open) (struct block_device *, fmode_t);
	int (*release) (struct gendisk *, fmode_t);
	int (*ioctl) (struct block_device *, fmode_t, unsigned, unsigned long);
	int (*compat_ioctl) (struct block_device *, fmode_t, unsigned, unsigned long);
	int (*direct_access) (struct block_device *, sector_t, void **,
				unsigned long *);
	void (*unlock_native_capacity) (struct gendisk *);
	int (*revalidate_disk) (struct gendisk *);
	int (*getgeo)(struct block_device *, struct hd_geometry *);
	void (*swap_slot_free_notify) (struct block_device *, unsigned long);

locking rules:

======================= ===================
ops			bd_mutex
======================= ===================
open:			yes
release:		yes
ioctl:			no
compat_ioctl:		no
direct_access:		no
unlock_native_capacity:	no
revalidate_disk:	no
getgeo:			no
swap_slot_free_notify:	no	(see below)
======================= ===================

swap_slot_free_notify is called with swap_lock and sometimes the page lock
held.


file_operations
===============

prototypes::

	loff_t (*llseek) (struct file *, loff_t, int);
	ssize_t (*read) (struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
	ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
	ssize_t (*read_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *);
	ssize_t (*write_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *);
	int (*iterate) (struct file *, struct dir_context *);
	int (*iterate_shared) (struct file *, struct dir_context *);
	__poll_t (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *);
	long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
	long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
	int (*mmap) (struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *);
	int (*open) (struct inode *, struct file *);
	int (*flush) (struct file *);
	int (*release) (struct inode *, struct file *);
	int (*fsync) (struct file *, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync);
	int (*fasync) (int, struct file *, int);
	int (*lock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *);
	ssize_t (*readv) (struct file *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long,
			loff_t *);
	ssize_t (*writev) (struct file *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long,
			loff_t *);
	ssize_t (*sendfile) (struct file *, loff_t *, size_t, read_actor_t,
			void __user *);
	ssize_t (*sendpage) (struct file *, struct page *, int, size_t,
			loff_t *, int);
	unsigned long (*get_unmapped_area)(struct file *, unsigned long,
			unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long);
	int (*check_flags)(int);
	int (*flock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *);
	ssize_t (*splice_write)(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct file *, loff_t *,
			size_t, unsigned int);
	ssize_t (*splice_read)(struct file *, loff_t *, struct pipe_inode_info *,
			size_t, unsigned int);
	int (*setlease)(struct file *, long, struct file_lock **, void **);
	long (*fallocate)(struct file *, int, loff_t, loff_t);

locking rules:
	All may block.

->llseek() locking has moved from llseek to the individual llseek
implementations.  If your fs is not using generic_file_llseek, you
need to acquire and release the appropriate locks in your ->llseek().
For many filesystems, it is probably safe to acquire the inode
mutex or just to use i_size_read() instead.
Note: this does not protect the file->f_pos against concurrent modifications
since this is something the userspace has to take care about.

->iterate() is called with i_rwsem exclusive.

->iterate_shared() is called with i_rwsem at least shared.

->fasync() is responsible for maintaining the FASYNC bit in filp->f_flags.
Most instances call fasync_helper(), which does that maintenance, so it's
not normally something one needs to worry about.  Return values > 0 will be
mapped to zero in the VFS layer.

->readdir() and ->ioctl() on directories must be changed. Ideally we would
move ->readdir() to inode_operations and use a separate method for directory
->ioctl() or kill the latter completely. One of the problems is that for
anything that resembles union-mount we won't have a struct file for all
components. And there are other reasons why the current interface is a mess...

->read on directories probably must go away - we should just enforce -EISDIR
in sys_read() and friends.

->setlease operations should call generic_setlease() before or after setting
the lease within the individual filesystem to record the result of the
operation

dquot_operations
================

prototypes::

	int (*write_dquot) (struct dquot *);
	int (*acquire_dquot) (struct dquot *);
	int (*release_dquot) (struct dquot *);
	int (*mark_dirty) (struct dquot *);
	int (*write_info) (struct super_block *, int);

These operations are intended to be more or less wrapping functions that ensure
a proper locking wrt the filesystem and call the generic quota operations.

What filesystem should expect from the generic quota functions:

==============	============	=========================
ops		FS recursion	Held locks when called
==============	============	=========================
write_dquot:	yes		dqonoff_sem or dqptr_sem
acquire_dquot:	yes		dqonoff_sem or dqptr_sem
release_dquot:	yes		dqonoff_sem or dqptr_sem
mark_dirty:	no		-
write_info:	yes		dqonoff_sem
==============	============	=========================

FS recursion means calling ->quota_read() and ->quota_write() from superblock
operations.

More details about quota locking can be found in fs/dquot.c.

vm_operations_struct
====================

prototypes::

	void (*open)(struct vm_area_struct*);
	void (*close)(struct vm_area_struct*);
	vm_fault_t (*fault)(struct vm_area_struct*, struct vm_fault *);
	vm_fault_t (*page_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_fault *);
	vm_fault_t (*pfn_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_fault *);
	int (*access)(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long, void*, int, int);

locking rules:

=============	=========	===========================
ops		mmap_lock	PageLocked(page)
=============	=========	===========================
open:		yes
close:		yes
fault:		yes		can return with page locked
map_pages:	yes
page_mkwrite:	yes		can return with page locked
pfn_mkwrite:	yes
access:		yes
=============	=========	===========================

->fault() is called when a previously not present pte is about
to be faulted in. The filesystem must find and return the page associated
with the passed in "pgoff" in the vm_fault structure. If it is possible that
the page may be truncated and/or invalidated, then the filesystem must lock
the page, then ensure it is not already truncated (the page lock will block
subsequent truncate), and then return with VM_FAULT_LOCKED, and the page
locked. The VM will unlock the page.

->map_pages() is called when VM asks to map easy accessible pages.
Filesystem should find and map pages associated with offsets from "start_pgoff"
till "end_pgoff". ->map_pages() is called with page table locked and must
not block.  If it's not possible to reach a page without blocking,
filesystem should skip it. Filesystem should use do_set_pte() to setup
page table entry. Pointer to entry associated with the page is passed in
"pte" field in vm_fault structure. Pointers to entries for other offsets
should be calculated relative to "pte".

->page_mkwrite() is called when a previously read-only pte is
about to become writeable. The filesystem again must ensure that there are
no truncate/invalidate races, and then return with the page locked. If
the page has been truncated, the filesystem should not look up a new page
like the ->fault() handler, but simply return with VM_FAULT_NOPAGE, which
will cause the VM to retry the fault.

->pfn_mkwrite() is the same as page_mkwrite but when the pte is
VM_PFNMAP or VM_MIXEDMAP with a page-less entry. Expected return is
VM_FAULT_NOPAGE. Or one of the VM_FAULT_ERROR types. The default behavior
after this call is to make the pte read-write, unless pfn_mkwrite returns
an error.

->access() is called when get_user_pages() fails in
access_process_vm(), typically used to debug a process through
/proc/pid/mem or ptrace.  This function is needed only for
VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP VMAs.

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			Dubious stuff

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