This prepares the removal of the big kernel lock from the
file locking code. We still use the BKL as long as fs/lockd
uses it and ceph might sleep, but we can flip the definition
to a private spinlock as soon as that's done.
All users outside of fs/lockd get converted to use
lock_flocks() instead of lock_kernel() where appropriate.
Based on an earlier patch to use a spinlock from Matthew
Wilcox, who has attempted this a few times before, the
earliest patch from over 10 years ago turned it into
a semaphore, which ended up being slower than the BKL
and was subsequently reverted.
Someone should do some serious performance testing when
this becomes a spinlock, since this has caused problems
before. Using a spinlock should be at least as good
as the BKL in theory, but who knows...
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Don't unlock on vfs_rejected_lock path in afs_do_setlk, since the lock
is unlocked after abort_attempt label.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The __mandatory_lock(inode) macro makes the same check, but makes the code
more readable.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fix file locking for AFS:
(*) Start the lock manager thread under a mutex to avoid a race.
(*) Made the locking non-fair: New readlocks will jump pending writelocks if
there's a readlock currently granted on a file. This makes the behaviour
similar to Linux's VFS locking.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Bruce and David's patches clashed.
fs/afs/flock.c: In function 'afs_do_getlk':
fs/afs/flock.c:459: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Al Viro
Arnd Bergmann
Alexey Dobriyan
Jiri Slaby
Pavel Emelyanov
David Howells
Andrew Morton