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J. Bruce Fields 40595cdc93 nfs: block notification on fs with its own ->lock 
NFSv4.1 supports an optional lock notification feature which notifies
the client when a lock comes available.  (Normally NFSv4 clients just
poll for locks if necessary.)  To make that work, we need to request a
blocking lock from the filesystem.

We turned that off for NFS in commit f657f8eef3 ("nfs: don't atempt
blocking locks on nfs reexports") [sic] because it actually blocks the
nfsd thread while waiting for the lock.

Thanks to Vasily Averin for pointing out that NFS isn't the only
filesystem with that problem.

Any filesystem that leaves ->lock NULL will use posix_lock_file(), which
does the right thing.  Simplest is just to assume that any filesystem
that defines its own ->lock is not safe to request a blocking lock from.

So, this patch mostly reverts commit f657f8eef3 ("nfs: don't atempt
blocking locks on nfs reexports") [sic] and commit b840be2f00 ("lockd:
don't attempt blocking locks on nfs reexports"), and instead uses a
check of ->lock (Vasily's suggestion) to decide whether to support
blocking lock notifications on a given filesystem.  Also add a little
documentation.

Perhaps someday we could add back an export flag later to allow
filesystems with "good" ->lock methods to support blocking lock
notifications.

Reported-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
[ cel: Description rewritten to address checkpatch nits ]
[ cel: Fixed warning when SUNRPC debugging is disabled ]
[ cel: Fixed NULL check ]
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
2022-01-08 14:42:01 -05:00
arch A single fix for the x86 scheduler topology: 2021-12-12 09:38:04 -08:00
block block-5.16-2021-12-10 2021-12-11 09:25:07 -08:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto Update to zstd-1.4.10 2021-11-13 15:32:30 -08:00
Documentation Char/misc driver fixes for 5.16-rc5 2021-12-12 10:16:34 -08:00
drivers USB fixes for 5.16-rc5 2021-12-12 10:20:57 -08:00
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init kbuild: Fix -Wimplicit-fallthrough=5 error for GCC 5.x and 6.x 2021-11-14 18:59:49 -08:00
ipc shm: extend forced shm destroy to support objects from several IPC nses 2021-11-20 10:35:54 -08:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.