f2fs: introduce fi->i_sem to protect fi's info

This patch introduces fi->i_sem to protect fi's info that includes xattr_ver,
pino, i_nlink.
This enables to remove i_mutex during f2fs_sync_file, resulting in performance
improvement when a number of fsync calls are triggered from many concurrent
threads.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>

fs/f2fs/dir.c

@@ -493,6 +493,7 @@ start:
 add_dentry:
 	f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback(dentry_page, DATA);
 
+	down_write(&F2FS_I(inode)->i_sem);
 	page = init_inode_metadata(inode, dir, name);
 	if (IS_ERR(page)) {
 		err = PTR_ERR(page);
@@ -515,6 +516,8 @@ add_dentry:
 
 	update_parent_metadata(dir, inode, current_depth);
 fail:
+	up_write(&F2FS_I(inode)->i_sem);
+
 	if (is_inode_flag_set(F2FS_I(dir), FI_UPDATE_DIR)) {
 		update_inode_page(dir);
 		clear_inode_flag(F2FS_I(dir), FI_UPDATE_DIR);
@@ -559,6 +562,8 @@ void f2fs_delete_entry(struct f2fs_dir_entry *dentry, struct page *page,
 	if (inode) {
 		struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi = F2FS_SB(dir->i_sb);
 
+		down_write(&F2FS_I(inode)->i_sem);
+
 		if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) {
 			drop_nlink(dir);
 			update_inode_page(dir);
@@ -569,6 +574,7 @@ void f2fs_delete_entry(struct f2fs_dir_entry *dentry, struct page *page,
 			drop_nlink(inode);
 			i_size_write(inode, 0);
 		}
+		up_write(&F2FS_I(inode)->i_sem);
 		update_inode_page(inode);
 
 		if (inode->i_nlink == 0)

fs/f2fs/f2fs.h

@@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ struct f2fs_inode_info {
 
 	/* Use below internally in f2fs*/
 	unsigned long flags;		/* use to pass per-file flags */
+	struct rw_semaphore i_sem;	/* protect fi info */
 	atomic_t dirty_dents;		/* # of dirty dentry pages */
 	f2fs_hash_t chash;		/* hash value of given file name */
 	unsigned int clevel;		/* maximum level of given file name */

fs/f2fs/file.c

@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ static int get_parent_ino(struct inode *inode, nid_t *pino)
 int f2fs_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
+	struct f2fs_inode_info *fi = F2FS_I(inode);
 	struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi = F2FS_SB(inode->i_sb);
 	int ret = 0;
 	bool need_cp = false;
@@ -133,7 +134,7 @@ int f2fs_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
 	/* guarantee free sections for fsync */
 	f2fs_balance_fs(sbi);
 
-	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+	down_read(&fi->i_sem);
 
 	/*
 	 * Both of fdatasync() and fsync() are able to be recovered from
@@ -150,21 +151,27 @@ int f2fs_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
 	else if (F2FS_I(inode)->xattr_ver == cur_cp_version(F2FS_CKPT(sbi)))
 		need_cp = true;
 
+	up_read(&fi->i_sem);
+
 	if (need_cp) {
 		nid_t pino;
 
-		F2FS_I(inode)->xattr_ver = 0;
-
 		/* all the dirty node pages should be flushed for POR */
 		ret = f2fs_sync_fs(inode->i_sb, 1);
+
+		down_write(&fi->i_sem);
+		F2FS_I(inode)->xattr_ver = 0;
 		if (file_wrong_pino(inode) && inode->i_nlink == 1 &&
 					get_parent_ino(inode, &pino)) {
 			F2FS_I(inode)->i_pino = pino;
 			file_got_pino(inode);
+			up_write(&fi->i_sem);
 			mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
 			ret = f2fs_write_inode(inode, NULL);
 			if (ret)
 				goto out;
+		} else {
+			up_write(&fi->i_sem);
 		}
 	} else {
 		/* if there is no written node page, write its inode page */
@@ -180,7 +187,6 @@ int f2fs_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
 		ret = blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
 	}
 out:
-	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 	trace_f2fs_sync_file_exit(inode, need_cp, datasync, ret);
 	return ret;
 }

fs/f2fs/namei.c

@@ -424,12 +424,17 @@ static int f2fs_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
 		}
 
 		f2fs_set_link(new_dir, new_entry, new_page, old_inode);
+		down_write(&F2FS_I(old_inode)->i_sem);
 		F2FS_I(old_inode)->i_pino = new_dir->i_ino;
+		up_write(&F2FS_I(old_inode)->i_sem);
 
 		new_inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
+		down_write(&F2FS_I(new_inode)->i_sem);
 		if (old_dir_entry)
 			drop_nlink(new_inode);
 		drop_nlink(new_inode);
+		up_write(&F2FS_I(new_inode)->i_sem);
+
 		mark_inode_dirty(new_inode);
 
 		if (!new_inode->i_nlink)
@@ -459,7 +464,9 @@ static int f2fs_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
 		if (old_dir != new_dir) {
 			f2fs_set_link(old_inode, old_dir_entry,
 						old_dir_page, new_dir);
+			down_write(&F2FS_I(old_inode)->i_sem);
 			F2FS_I(old_inode)->i_pino = new_dir->i_ino;
+			up_write(&F2FS_I(old_inode)->i_sem);
 			update_inode_page(old_inode);
 		} else {
 			kunmap(old_dir_page);

fs/f2fs/super.c

@@ -360,6 +360,7 @@ static struct inode *f2fs_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
 	fi->i_current_depth = 1;
 	fi->i_advise = 0;
 	rwlock_init(&fi->ext.ext_lock);
+	init_rwsem(&fi->i_sem);
 
 	set_inode_flag(fi, FI_NEW_INODE);
 

fs/f2fs/xattr.c

@@ -590,7 +590,10 @@ int f2fs_setxattr(struct inode *inode, int name_index, const char *name,
 	f2fs_balance_fs(sbi);
 
 	f2fs_lock_op(sbi);
+	/* protect xattr_ver */
+	down_write(&F2FS_I(inode)->i_sem);
 	err = __f2fs_setxattr(inode, name_index, name, value, value_len, ipage);
+	up_write(&F2FS_I(inode)->i_sem);
 	f2fs_unlock_op(sbi);
 
 	return err;