fs: dcache scale subdirs

Protect d_subdirs and d_child with d_lock, except in filesystems that aren't
using dcache_lock for these anyway (eg. using i_mutex).

Note: if we change the locking rule in future so that ->d_child protection is
provided only with ->d_parent->d_lock, it may allow us to reduce some locking.
But it would be an exception to an otherwise regular locking scheme, so we'd
have to see some good results. Probably not worthwhile.

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

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/notify/fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
index 20dc218707c..aa4f25e803f 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
@@ -68,17 +68,19 @@ void __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags(struct inode *inode)
 		/* run all of the children of the original inode and fix their
 		 * d_flags to indicate parental interest (their parent is the
 		 * original inode) */
+		spin_lock(&alias->d_lock);
 		list_for_each_entry(child, &alias->d_subdirs, d_u.d_child) {
 			if (!child->d_inode)
 				continue;
 
-			spin_lock(&child->d_lock);
+			spin_lock_nested(&child->d_lock, DENTRY_D_LOCK_NESTED);
 			if (watched)
 				child->d_flags |= DCACHE_FSNOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED;
 			else
 				child->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_FSNOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED;
 			spin_unlock(&child->d_lock);
 		}
+		spin_unlock(&alias->d_lock);
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
 }