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fs/locks.c: prepare for BKL removal

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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
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Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-18 15:09:31 +02:00
parent 2e54eb96e2
commit b89f432133
8 changed files with 97 additions and 66 deletions
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fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
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@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
*/
#include <linux/file.h>
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/namei.h>
#include <linux/swap.h>
@@ -3895,7 +3895,7 @@ check_for_locks(struct nfs4_file *filp, struct nfs4_stateowner *lowner)
struct inode *inode = filp->fi_inode;
int status = 0;
lock_kernel();
lock_flocks();
for (flpp = &inode->i_flock; *flpp != NULL; flpp = &(*flpp)->fl_next) {
if ((*flpp)->fl_owner == (fl_owner_t)lowner) {
status = 1;
@@ -3903,7 +3903,7 @@ check_for_locks(struct nfs4_file *filp, struct nfs4_stateowner *lowner)
}
}
out:
unlock_kernel();
unlock_flocks();
return status;
}