Re: [PATCH 2/2] Btrfs: use a lock to protect incompat/compat flag of the super block

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On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 06:30:16PM +0800, Miao Xie wrote:
> In order to avoid this problem, we introduce a lock named super_lock into
> the btrfs_fs_info structure. If we want to update incompat/compat flags
> of the super block, we must hold it.
> 
> +	/*
> +	 * Used to protect the incompat_flags, compat_flags, compat_ro_flags
> +	 * when they are updated.

> +	spinlock_t super_lock;

The lock name is too general for protecting just *_flags, do you have
plans to add more items from superblock under this lock?  If no, I
suggest to pick a different name.

> @@ -3663,8 +3674,15 @@ static inline void __btrfs_set_fs_incompat(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
>  	disk_super = fs_info->super_copy;
>  	features = btrfs_super_incompat_flags(disk_super);
>  	if (!(features & flag)) {
> -		features |= flag;
> -		btrfs_set_super_incompat_flags(disk_super, features);
> +		spin_lock(&fs_info->super_lock);
> +		features = btrfs_super_incompat_flags(disk_super);
> +		if (!(features & flag)) {
> +			features |= flag;
> +			btrfs_set_super_incompat_flags(disk_super, features);
> +			printk(KERN_INFO "btrfs: setting %llu feature flag\n",
> +					 flag);

flag is u64, please use (unsigned long long)flag and possibly the new
btrfs_info replacement of printks.

> +		}
> +		spin_unlock(&fs_info->super_lock);
>  	}
>  }

otherwise ok.

Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx>
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