Fix: consumerd: fd still open after `lttng snapshot record` returns

[lttng-tools.git] / src / common / trace-chunk.cpp

diff --git a/src/common/trace-chunk.cpp b/src/common/trace-chunk.cpp
index ad7a983fbc78e50ca78db0c038aeae2f4244627e..9e804ce0197b25c74a66a0b211cce3fa8f77768a 100644 (file)
--- a/src/common/trace-chunk.cpp
+++ b/src/common/trace-chunk.cpp
@@ -1857,7 +1857,6 @@ void free_lttng_trace_chunk_registry_element(struct rcu_head *node)
        struct lttng_trace_chunk_registry_element *element =
                        container_of(node, typeof(*element), rcu_node);
 
-       lttng_trace_chunk_fini(&element->chunk);
        free(element);
 }
 
@@ -1879,6 +1878,24 @@ void lttng_trace_chunk_release(struct urcu_ref *ref)
        if (chunk->in_registry_element) {
                struct lttng_trace_chunk_registry_element *element;
 
+               /*
+                * Release internal chunk attributes immediately and
+                * only use the deferred `call_rcu` work to reclaim the
+                * storage.
+                *
+                * This ensures that file handles are released as soon as
+                * possible which works around a problem we encounter with PRAM fs
+                * mounts (and possibly other non-POSIX compliant file systems):
+                * directories that contain files which are open can't be
+                * rmdir().
+                *
+                * This means that the recording of a snapshot could be
+                * completed, but that it would be impossible for the user to
+                * delete it until the deferred clean-up released the file
+                * handles to its contents.
+                */
+               lttng_trace_chunk_fini(chunk);
+
                element = container_of(chunk, typeof(*element), chunk);
                if (element->registry) {
                        rcu_read_lock();