Re: nfsd changes for 2.6.37

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 09:48:47PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 October 2010 20:43:59 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Linus Torvalds
> > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Feel free to edit the message/patch to your hearts content.
> > 
> > Oh, and if you want me to just commit this part, I can do so. It
> > doesn't make much sense without the other parts to actually make it
> > useful, though, so it probably makes more sense to come with them.
> 
> Once Bruce is happy with the test results, you can pull it from
> 
> git+ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl.git flock

Not the useful url for us hoi polloi out here.  OK, looking at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl.git flock....

> I've rewritten all the changelogs to make more sense as a series,
> and split out the bits that turn lock_flocks into a spinlock to
> come last, so we get a bisectable series.
> 
> The contents are left unchanged.

Looks fine to me!

I haven't retested that, but I can see that the result is identical to
what I tested.

(You're missing Linus's comment fix, though, unless I'm confused.)

--b.


> 
> 	Arnd
> ---
> 
> commit b3426739cc8f7c7dd127ca8dad5e25195930cac1
> Author: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Date:   Wed Oct 27 21:39:58 2010 +0200
> 
>     locks: turn lock_flocks into a spinlock
>     
>     Nothing depends on lock_flocks using the BKL
>     any more, so we can do the switch over to
>     a private spinlock.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
>  fs/Kconfig |    1 -
>  fs/locks.c |    5 +++--
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> commit 55d3ff97c5c0b3dce39f705e2b1fe85818891822
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Date:   Wed Oct 27 12:38:12 2010 -0400
> 
>     locks: avoid fasync allocation under lock_flocks
>     
>     This splits fasync_helper into four functions: fasync_alloc,
>     fasync_free, fasync_insert_entry and fasync_remove_entry,
>     in order to allow the lease handling to call them directly
>     instead of going through fasync_helper.
>     
>     The fasync_helper interface really doesn't make sense outside
>     of ->fasync file operations, which use the same calling
>     conventions of passing flags in and out as the helper.
>     
>     After the change, fcntl_setlease can simply allocate the
>     new fasync_struct outside of lock_flocks, which is required
>     to turn that into a spinlock.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>     [bfields@redhat.com: rebase on top of my changes to Arnd's patch]
>     Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
>     [arnd: rewrite changelog text]
>     Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
>  fs/fcntl.c         |   66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  fs/locks.c         |   18 +++++++++++++-
>  include/linux/fs.h |    5 ++++
>  3 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> commit c5b1f0d92c36851aca09ac6c7c0c4f9690ac14f3
> Author: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Date:   Wed Oct 27 15:46:08 2010 +0200
> 
>     locks/nfsd: allocate file lock outside of spinlock
>     
>     As suggested by Christoph Hellwig, this moves allocation
>     of new file locks out of generic_setlease into the
>     callers, nfs4_open_delegation and fcntl_setlease in order
>     to allow GFP_KERNEL allocations when lock_flocks has
>     become a spinlock.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>     Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
> 
>  fs/locks.c          |   36 ++++++++++++------------------------
>  fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c |   26 +++++++++++++++-----------
>  include/linux/fs.h  |    1 +
>  3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
> 
> commit a282a1fa6b23bd21ba0b86e53ed2a316b001836f
> Author: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
> Date:   Tue Oct 26 18:25:30 2010 -0400
> 
>     lockd: fix nlmsvc_notify_blocked locking
>     
>     nlmsvc_notify_blocked walks the nlm_blocked list,
>     which requires nlm_blocked_lock.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
>  fs/lockd/svclock.c |    6 ++++--
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> commit 763641d81202834e9d64de2019d1edec12868f4f
> Author: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Date:   Tue Oct 26 22:55:40 2010 +0200
> 
>     lockd: push lock_flocks down
>     
>     lockd should use lock_flocks() instead of lock_kernel()
>     to lock against posix locks accessing the i_flock list.
>     
>     This is a prerequisite to turning lock_flocks into a
>     spinlock.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>     Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
> 
>  fs/lockd/svc.c     |   11 -----------
>  fs/lockd/svcsubs.c |    9 ++++++++-
>  fs/nfs/Kconfig     |    1 -
>  fs/nfsd/Kconfig    |    1 -
>  4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)