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Btrfs: race free update of commit root for ro snapshots
This is a better solution for the problem addressed in the following
commit:
Btrfs: update commit root on snapshot creation after orphan cleanup
(3821f34)
The previous solution wasn't the best because of 2 reasons:
1) It added another full transaction commit, which is more expensive
than just swapping the commit root with the root;
2) If a reboot happened after the first transaction commit (the one
that creates the snapshot) and before the second transaction commit,
then we would end up with the same problem if a send using that
snapshot was requested before the first transaction commit after
the reboot.
This change addresses those 2 issues. The second issue is addressed by
switching the commit root in the dentry lookup VFS callback, which is
also called by the snapshot/subvol creation ioctl and performs orphan
cleanup if needed. Like the vfs, the ioctl locks the parent inode too,
preventing race issues between a dentry lookup and snapshot creation.
Cc: Alex Lyakas <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <[email protected]>
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