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Nowadays before starting a reflink operation we do this: 1) Take the VFS lock of the inodes in exclusive mode (a rw semaphore); 2) Take the mmap lock of the inodes (struct btrfs_inode::i_mmap_lock); 3) Flush all delalloc in the source and target ranges; 4) Wait for all ordered extents in the source and target ranges to complete; 5) Lock the source and destination ranges in the inodes' io trees. In step 5 we lock the source range because: 1) We needed to serialize against mmap writes, but that is not needed anymore because nowadays we do that through the inode's i_mmap_lock (step 2). This happens since commit8c99516a8c("btrfs: exclude mmaps while doing remap"); 2) To serialize against a concurrent relocation and avoid generating a delayed ref for an extent that was just dropped by relocation, see commitd8b5524242("Btrfs: fix race between reflink/dedupe and relocation"). Locking the source range however blocks any concurrent reads for that range and makes test case generic/733 fail. So instead of locking the source range during reflinks, make relocation read lock the inode's i_mmap_lock, so that it serializes with a concurrent reflink while still able to run concurrently with mmap writes and allow concurrent reads too. Reviewed-by: Boris Burkov <boris@bur.io> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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