fs: dcache scale dentry refcount

Make d_count non-atomic and protect it with d_lock. This allows us to ensure a
0 refcount dentry remains 0 without dcache_lock. It is also fairly natural when
we start protecting many other dentry members with d_lock.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 82 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 3d3c843c36e..81e91502b29 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
  *   - d_flags
  *   - d_name
  *   - d_lru
+ *   - d_count
  *
  * Ordering:
  * dcache_lock
@@ -125,6 +126,7 @@ static void __d_free(struct rcu_head *head)
  */
 static void d_free(struct dentry *dentry)
 {
+	BUG_ON(dentry->d_count);
 	this_cpu_dec(nr_dentry);
 	if (dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_release)
 		dentry->d_op->d_release(dentry);
@@ -222,8 +224,11 @@ static struct dentry *d_kill(struct dentry *dentry)
 	struct dentry *parent;
 
 	list_del(&dentry->d_u.d_child);
-	/*drops the locks, at that point nobody can reach this dentry */
 	dentry_iput(dentry);
+	/*
+	 * dentry_iput drops the locks, at which point nobody (except
+	 * transient RCU lookups) can reach this dentry.
+	 */
 	if (IS_ROOT(dentry))
 		parent = NULL;
 	else
@@ -303,13 +308,23 @@ void dput(struct dentry *dentry)
 		return;
 
 repeat:
-	if (atomic_read(&dentry->d_count) == 1)
+	if (dentry->d_count == 1)
 		might_sleep();
-	if (!atomic_dec_and_lock(&dentry->d_count, &dcache_lock))
-		return;
-
 	spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
-	if (atomic_read(&dentry->d_count)) {
+	if (dentry->d_count == 1) {
+		if (!spin_trylock(&dcache_lock)) {
+			/*
+			 * Something of a livelock possibility we could avoid
+			 * by taking dcache_lock and trying again, but we
+			 * want to reduce dcache_lock anyway so this will
+			 * get improved.
+			 */
+			spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
+			goto repeat;
+		}
+	}
+	dentry->d_count--;
+	if (dentry->d_count) {
 		spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
 		spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
 		return;
@@ -389,7 +404,7 @@ int d_invalidate(struct dentry * dentry)
 	 * working directory or similar).
 	 */
 	spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
-	if (atomic_read(&dentry->d_count) > 1) {
+	if (dentry->d_count > 1) {
 		if (dentry->d_inode && S_ISDIR(dentry->d_inode->i_mode)) {
 			spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
 			spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
@@ -404,29 +419,61 @@ int d_invalidate(struct dentry * dentry)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_invalidate);
 
-/* This should be called _only_ with dcache_lock held */
+/* This must be called with dcache_lock and d_lock held */
 static inline struct dentry * __dget_locked_dlock(struct dentry *dentry)
 {
-	atomic_inc(&dentry->d_count);
+	dentry->d_count++;
 	dentry_lru_del(dentry);
 	return dentry;
 }
 
+/* This should be called _only_ with dcache_lock held */
 static inline struct dentry * __dget_locked(struct dentry *dentry)
 {
-	atomic_inc(&dentry->d_count);
 	spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
-	dentry_lru_del(dentry);
+	__dget_locked_dlock(dentry);
 	spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
 	return dentry;
 }
 
+struct dentry * dget_locked_dlock(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+	return __dget_locked_dlock(dentry);
+}
+
 struct dentry * dget_locked(struct dentry *dentry)
 {
 	return __dget_locked(dentry);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dget_locked);
 
+struct dentry *dget_parent(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+	struct dentry *ret;
+
+repeat:
+	spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
+	ret = dentry->d_parent;
+	if (!ret)
+		goto out;
+	if (dentry == ret) {
+		ret->d_count++;
+		goto out;
+	}
+	if (!spin_trylock(&ret->d_lock)) {
+		spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
+		cpu_relax();
+		goto repeat;
+	}
+	BUG_ON(!ret->d_count);
+	ret->d_count++;
+	spin_unlock(&ret->d_lock);
+out:
+	spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
+	return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(dget_parent);
+
 /**
  * d_find_alias - grab a hashed alias of inode
  * @inode: inode in question
@@ -495,7 +542,7 @@ restart:
 	spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
 	list_for_each_entry(dentry, &inode->i_dentry, d_alias) {
 		spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
-		if (!atomic_read(&dentry->d_count)) {
+		if (!dentry->d_count) {
 			__dget_locked_dlock(dentry);
 			__d_drop(dentry);
 			spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
@@ -530,7 +577,10 @@ static void prune_one_dentry(struct dentry * dentry)
 	 */
 	while (dentry) {
 		spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
-		if (!atomic_dec_and_lock(&dentry->d_count, &dentry->d_lock)) {
+		spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
+		dentry->d_count--;
+		if (dentry->d_count) {
+			spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
 			spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
 			return;
 		}
@@ -562,7 +612,7 @@ static void shrink_dentry_list(struct list_head *list)
 		 * the LRU because of laziness during lookup.  Do not free
 		 * it - just keep it off the LRU list.
 		 */
-		if (atomic_read(&dentry->d_count)) {
+		if (dentry->d_count) {
 			spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
 			continue;
 		}
@@ -783,7 +833,7 @@ static void shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree(struct dentry *dentry)
 		do {
 			struct inode *inode;
 
-			if (atomic_read(&dentry->d_count) != 0) {
+			if (dentry->d_count != 0) {
 				printk(KERN_ERR
 				       "BUG: Dentry %p{i=%lx,n=%s}"
 				       " still in use (%d)"
@@ -792,7 +842,7 @@ static void shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree(struct dentry *dentry)
 				       dentry->d_inode ?
 				       dentry->d_inode->i_ino : 0UL,
 				       dentry->d_name.name,
-				       atomic_read(&dentry->d_count),
+				       dentry->d_count,
 				       dentry->d_sb->s_type->name,
 				       dentry->d_sb->s_id);
 				BUG();
@@ -802,7 +852,9 @@ static void shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree(struct dentry *dentry)
 				parent = NULL;
 			else {
 				parent = dentry->d_parent;
-				atomic_dec(&parent->d_count);
+				spin_lock(&parent->d_lock);
+				parent->d_count--;
+				spin_unlock(&parent->d_lock);
 			}
 
 			list_del(&dentry->d_u.d_child);
@@ -853,7 +905,9 @@ void shrink_dcache_for_umount(struct super_block *sb)
 
 	dentry = sb->s_root;
 	sb->s_root = NULL;
-	atomic_dec(&dentry->d_count);
+	spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
+	dentry->d_count--;
+	spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
 	shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree(dentry);
 
 	while (!hlist_empty(&sb->s_anon)) {
@@ -950,7 +1004,7 @@ resume:
 		 * move only zero ref count dentries to the end 
 		 * of the unused list for prune_dcache
 		 */
-		if (!atomic_read(&dentry->d_count)) {
+		if (!dentry->d_count) {
 			dentry_lru_move_tail(dentry);
 			found++;
 		} else {
@@ -1068,7 +1122,7 @@ struct dentry *d_alloc(struct dentry * parent, const struct qstr *name)
 	memcpy(dname, name->name, name->len);
 	dname[name->len] = 0;
 
-	atomic_set(&dentry->d_count, 1);
+	dentry->d_count = 1;
 	dentry->d_flags = DCACHE_UNHASHED;
 	spin_lock_init(&dentry->d_lock);
 	dentry->d_inode = NULL;
@@ -1556,7 +1610,7 @@ struct dentry * __d_lookup(struct dentry * parent, struct qstr * name)
 				goto next;
 		}
 
-		atomic_inc(&dentry->d_count);
+		dentry->d_count++;
 		found = dentry;
 		spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
 		break;
@@ -1653,7 +1707,7 @@ void d_delete(struct dentry * dentry)
 	spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
 	spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
 	isdir = S_ISDIR(dentry->d_inode->i_mode);
-	if (atomic_read(&dentry->d_count) == 1) {
+	if (dentry->d_count == 1) {
 		dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_CANT_MOUNT;
 		dentry_iput(dentry);
 		fsnotify_nameremove(dentry, isdir);
@@ -2494,11 +2548,15 @@ resume:
 			this_parent = dentry;
 			goto repeat;
 		}
-		atomic_dec(&dentry->d_count);
+		spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
+		dentry->d_count--;
+		spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
 	}
 	if (this_parent != root) {
 		next = this_parent->d_u.d_child.next;
-		atomic_dec(&this_parent->d_count);
+		spin_lock(&this_parent->d_lock);
+		this_parent->d_count--;
+		spin_unlock(&this_parent->d_lock);
 		this_parent = this_parent->d_parent;
 		goto resume;
 	}