On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 3:03 PM, Nikolay Borisov <nbori...@suse.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 15.05.2018 20:52, Liu Bo wrote:
>> The check is superfluous since all of callers who set search_for_commit
>> also have skip_locking set.
>
> This is false. For example btrfs_qgroup_rescan_worker sets
> search_commit_root = 1 but doesn't set skip locking. So either your
> assumption is wrong or the code in btrfs_qgroup_rescan_worker has missed
> that (which seems more likely).
>

I'm a bit confused as I didn't see btrfs_qgroup_rescan_worker() set
path->search_commit_root.

thanks,
liubo

> I think this change necessitates either:
>
> a) ASSERT(p->skip_locking) inside the if (p->search_commit_root) branch
>
> or
>
> b) Unconditionally setting ->skip_locking if we have set
> search_commit_root and removing opencoded set of skip_locking alongside
> search_commit_root.
>
> I think b) is the better option since it provides "fire and forget"
> semantics when you want to search the commit root, since it's only read
> only.
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo....@linux.alibaba.com>
>> ---
>>  fs/btrfs/ctree.c | 2 --
>>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.c b/fs/btrfs/ctree.c
>> index 399839df7a8f..cf34eca41d4e 100644
>> --- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.c
>> +++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.c
>> @@ -2623,8 +2623,6 @@ static struct extent_buffer 
>> *btrfs_search_slot_get_root(struct btrfs_root *root,
>>               level = btrfs_header_level(b);
>>               if (p->need_commit_sem)
>>                       up_read(&fs_info->commit_root_sem);
>> -             if (!p->skip_locking)
>> -                     btrfs_tree_read_lock(b);
>>
>>               goto out;
>>       }
>>
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