Re: [PATCH 24/25] r/o bind mounts: track number of mount writers

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To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@...>
Cc: <akpm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <hch@...>
Date: Monday, September 24, 2007 - 1:54 pm

As we already say in various messages the percpu counters in here
look rather fishy.  I'd recomment to take a look at the per-cpu
superblock counters in XFS as they've been debugged quite well
now and could probably be lifted into a generic library for this
kind of think.  The code is mostly in fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c can
can be spotted by beeing under #ifdef HAVE_PERCPU_SB.

It also handles cases like hotplug cpu nicely that this code
seems to work around by always iterating over all possible cpus
which might not be nice on a dual core laptop with a distro kernel
that also has to support big iron.

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[PATCH 00/25] Read-only bind mounts, Dave Hansen, (Thu Sep 20, 3:52 pm)
Re: [PATCH 24/25] r/o bind mounts: track number of mount wri..., Christoph Hellwig, (Mon Sep 24, 1:54 pm)
Re: [PATCH 24/25] r/o bind mounts: track number of mount wri..., Christoph Hellwig, (Mon Sep 24, 3:24 pm)
Re: [PATCH 24/25] r/o bind mounts: track number of mount wri..., Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Sep 24, 10:34 am)
[PATCH 25/25] honor r/w changes at do_remount() time, Dave Hansen, (Thu Sep 20, 3:53 pm)
[PATCH 23/25] do_rmdir(): elevate write count, Dave Hansen, (Thu Sep 20, 3:53 pm)
[PATCH 06/25] elevate write count open()'d files, Dave Hansen, (Thu Sep 20, 3:52 pm)
Re: [PATCH 06/25] elevate write count open()'d files, Andrew Morton, (Wed Nov 28, 4:41 am)
Re: [PATCH 06/25] elevate write count open()'d files, Dave Hansen, (Wed Nov 28, 1:33 pm)
[PATCH 19/25] elevate write count for do_utimes(), Dave Hansen, (Thu Sep 20, 3:53 pm)
[PATCH 02/25] rearrange may_open() to be r/o friendly, Dave Hansen, (Thu Sep 20, 3:52 pm)
[RFC] detect missed mnt_want_write() calls, Dave Hansen, (Tue Sep 25, 9:34 pm)
[PATCH 09/25] make access() use mnt check, Dave Hansen, (Thu Sep 20, 3:53 pm)
[PATCH 05/25] r/o bind mounts: stub functions, Dave Hansen, (Thu Sep 20, 3:52 pm)
[PATCH 04/25] create cleanup helper svc_msnfs(), Dave Hansen, (Thu Sep 20, 3:52 pm)
[PATCH 03/25] give may_open() a local 'mnt' variable, Dave Hansen, (Thu Sep 20, 3:52 pm)
Re: [PATCH 03/25] give may_open() a local 'mnt' variable, Christoph Hellwig, (Thu Sep 20, 3:57 pm)