linux/fs/lockd
Jeff Layton 1c8c601a8c locks: protect most of the file_lock handling with i_lock
Having a global lock that protects all of this code is a clear
scalability problem. Instead of doing that, move most of the code to be
protected by the i_lock instead. The exceptions are the global lists
that the ->fl_link sits on, and the ->fl_block list.

->fl_link is what connects these structures to the
global lists, so we must ensure that we hold those locks when iterating
over or updating these lists.

Furthermore, sound deadlock detection requires that we hold the
blocked_list state steady while checking for loops. We also must ensure
that the search and update to the list are atomic.

For the checking and insertion side of the blocked_list, push the
acquisition of the global lock into __posix_lock_file and ensure that
checking and update of the  blocked_list is done without dropping the
lock in between.

On the removal side, when waking up blocked lock waiters, take the
global lock before walking the blocked list and dequeue the waiters from
the global list prior to removal from the fl_block list.

With this, deadlock detection should be race free while we minimize
excessive file_lock_lock thrashing.

Finally, in order to avoid a lock inversion problem when handling
/proc/locks output we must ensure that manipulations of the fl_block
list are also protected by the file_lock_lock.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:57:42 +04:00
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clnt4xdr.c lockd: Remove unnecessary BUG_ON()s in the xdr client code 2012-11-04 14:43:39 -05:00
clntlock.c LOCKD: Ensure that nlmclnt_block resets block->b_status after a server reboot 2013-04-21 18:08:42 -04:00
clntproc.c LOCKD: Ensure that nlmclnt_block resets block->b_status after a server reboot 2013-04-21 18:08:42 -04:00
clntxdr.c lockd: Remove unnecessary BUG_ON()s in the xdr client code 2012-11-04 14:43:39 -05:00
grace.c LockD: pass actual network namespace to grace period management functions 2012-07-27 16:49:22 -04:00
host.c Merge branch 'for-3.9' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2013-02-28 18:02:55 -08:00
Makefile lockd: Introduce new-style XDR functions for NLMv4 2010-12-16 12:37:23 -05:00
mon.c sunrpc: move address copy/cmp/convert routines and prototypes from clnt.h to addr.h 2013-02-05 09:41:14 -05:00
netns.h lockd: per-net NSM client creation and destruction helpers introduced 2012-10-01 15:27:34 -07:00
svc4proc.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-08-01 10:26:23 -07:00
svc.c Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2012-10-13 10:53:54 +09:00
svclock.c locks: drop the unused filp argument to posix_unblock_lock 2013-06-29 12:57:37 +04:00
svcproc.c NLM: nlm_lookup_file() may return NLMv4-specific error codes 2012-10-17 10:14:14 -04:00
svcshare.c lockd: fix sparse warning in svcshare.c 2008-04-23 16:13:39 -04:00
svcsubs.c locks: protect most of the file_lock handling with i_lock 2013-06-29 12:57:42 +04:00
xdr4.c lockd: Introduce new-style XDR functions for NLMv4 2010-12-16 12:37:23 -05:00
xdr.c lockd: Move nlmdbg_cookie2a() to svclock.c 2010-12-16 12:37:24 -05:00