On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 3:50 PM, Josef Bacik <jo...@toxicpanda.com> wrote:
> Since we've changed the fsync() path to always run ordered extents
> before doing the tree log we no longer need to take the dio_sem in the
> tree log path.  This gets rid of a lockdep splat that I was seeing with
> the AIO tests.

The dio_sem can be removed completely, it was added to synchronize
lockless dio writes with fsync to avoid races.
I.e., just removing it here in the tree-log makes it useless.

thanks!

>
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jo...@toxicpanda.com>
> ---
>  fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
> index f8220ec02036..aa06e1954b84 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
> @@ -4439,7 +4439,6 @@ static int btrfs_log_changed_extents(struct 
> btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
>
>         INIT_LIST_HEAD(&extents);
>
> -       down_write(&inode->dio_sem);
>         write_lock(&tree->lock);
>         test_gen = root->fs_info->last_trans_committed;
>         logged_start = start;
> @@ -4520,7 +4519,6 @@ static int btrfs_log_changed_extents(struct 
> btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
>         }
>         WARN_ON(!list_empty(&extents));
>         write_unlock(&tree->lock);
> -       up_write(&inode->dio_sem);
>
>         btrfs_release_path(path);
>         if (!ret)
> --
> 2.14.3
>
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