Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] vfs: Introduce on-demand filesystem initialisation

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 03:51:54PM +0100, Tom Spink wrote:


Occam's Razor...

You've just serialized ->kill_sb() for given fs type (and made sure that
if one gets stuck, _everything_ gets stuck).  Moreover, you've serialized
sget() against the same thing (i.e. pretty much each ->get_sb()).

All of that (and a couple of new methods) is done for something that just
plain does not belong to VFS.  It's trivially doable in filesystem *and*
it's about the objects with lifetimes that make sense only for filesystem
itself.

Hell, just do

int want_xfs_threads(void)
{
	int res = 0;
	mutex_lock(&foo_lock);
	if (!count++) {
		start threads
		if failed {
			count--;
			res = -Esomething;
		}
	}
	mutex_unlock(&foo_lock);
	return res;
}

void leave_xfs_threads(void)
{
	mutex_lock(&foo_lock);
	if (!--count)
		stop threads
	mutex_unlock(&foo_lock);
}

Call want_xfs_threads() in xfs_fs_fill_super(); call leave_xfs_threads() in
the end of xfs_put_super() and on failure exit from xfs_fs_fill_super().
End of story...  Any other fs that wants such things can do the same.