btrfs: use smp_mb__after_atomic() when forcing COW in create_pending_snapshot()
After setting the BTRFS_ROOT_FORCE_COW flag on the root we are doing a
full write barrier, smp_wmb(), but we don't need to, all we need is a
smp_mb__after_atomic(). The use of the smp_wmb() is from the old days
when we didn't use a bit and used instead an int field in the root to
signal if cow is forced. After the int field was changed to a bit in
the root's state (flags field), we forgot to update the memory barrier
in create_pending_snapshot() to smp_mb__after_atomic(), but we did the
change in commit_fs_roots() after clearing BTRFS_ROOT_FORCE_COW. That
happened in commit 27cdeb7096b8 ("Btrfs: use bitfield instead of integer
data type for the some variants in btrfs_root"). On the reader side, in
should_cow_block(), we also use the counterpart smp_mb__before_atomic()
which generates further confusion.
So change the smp_wmb() to smp_mb__after_atomic(). In fact we don't
even need any barrier at all since create_pending_snapshot() is called
in the critical section of a transaction commit and therefore no one
can concurrently join/attach the transaction, or start a new one, until
the transaction is unblocked. By the time someone starts a new transaction
and enters should_cow_block(), a lot of implicit memory barriers already
took place by having acquired several locks such as fs_info->trans_lock
and extent buffer locks on the root node at least. Nevertlheless, for
consistency use smp_mb__after_atomic() after setting the force cow bit
in create_pending_snapshot().
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
index 23bcd3c..89ae0c7 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
@@ -1802,7 +1802,7 @@ static noinline int create_pending_snapshot(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
}
/* see comments in should_cow_block() */
set_bit(BTRFS_ROOT_FORCE_COW, &root->state);
- smp_wmb();
+ smp_mb__after_atomic();
btrfs_set_root_node(new_root_item, tmp);
/* record when the snapshot was created in key.offset */
