Re: [PATCH] locks: remove changelog comments

[Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 2021-10-19 at 13:38 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>
> 
> This is only of historical interest, and anyone interested in the
> history can dig out an old version of locks.c from from git.
> 
> Triggered by the observation that it references the now-removed
> Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.rst.
> 
> Reported-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
> ---
>  fs/locks.c | 114 ++---------------------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 110 deletions(-)
> 
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 12:27:55PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > Yeah, I think that looks great. Send it with a changelog and I'll pull
> > it into the branch I have feeding into -next.
> 
> OK!--b.
> 
> diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
> index 3d6fb4ae847b..b54813eae44f 100644
> --- a/fs/locks.c
> +++ b/fs/locks.c
> @@ -2,117 +2,11 @@
>  /*
>   *  linux/fs/locks.c
>   *
> - *  Provide support for fcntl()'s F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW calls.
> - *  Doug Evans (dje@spiff.uucp), August 07, 1992
> + * We implement four types of file locks: BSD locks, posix locks, open
> + * file description locks, and leases.  For details about BSD locks,
> + * see the flock(2) man page; for details about the other three, see
> + * fcntl(2).
>   *
> - *  Deadlock detection added.
> - *  FIXME: one thing isn't handled yet:
> - *	- mandatory locks (requires lots of changes elsewhere)
> - *  Kelly Carmichael (kelly@[142.24.8.65]), September 17, 1994.
> - *
> - *  Miscellaneous edits, and a total rewrite of posix_lock_file() code.
> - *  Kai Petzke (wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de), 1994
> - *
> - *  Converted file_lock_table to a linked list from an array, which eliminates
> - *  the limits on how many active file locks are open.
> - *  Chad Page (pageone@netcom.com), November 27, 1994
> - *
> - *  Removed dependency on file descriptors. dup()'ed file descriptors now
> - *  get the same locks as the original file descriptors, and a close() on
> - *  any file descriptor removes ALL the locks on the file for the current
> - *  process. Since locks still depend on the process id, locks are inherited
> - *  after an exec() but not after a fork(). This agrees with POSIX, and both
> - *  BSD and SVR4 practice.
> - *  Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), February 14, 1995
> - *
> - *  Scrapped free list which is redundant now that we allocate locks
> - *  dynamically with kmalloc()/kfree().
> - *  Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), February 21, 1995
> - *
> - *  Implemented two lock personalities - FL_FLOCK and FL_POSIX.
> - *
> - *  FL_POSIX locks are created with calls to fcntl() and lockf() through the
> - *  fcntl() system call. They have the semantics described above.
> - *
> - *  FL_FLOCK locks are created with calls to flock(), through the flock()
> - *  system call, which is new. Old C libraries implement flock() via fcntl()
> - *  and will continue to use the old, broken implementation.
> - *
> - *  FL_FLOCK locks follow the 4.4 BSD flock() semantics. They are associated
> - *  with a file pointer (filp). As a result they can be shared by a parent
> - *  process and its children after a fork(). They are removed when the last
> - *  file descriptor referring to the file pointer is closed (unless explicitly
> - *  unlocked).
> - *
> - *  FL_FLOCK locks never deadlock, an existing lock is always removed before
> - *  upgrading from shared to exclusive (or vice versa). When this happens
> - *  any processes blocked by the current lock are woken up and allowed to
> - *  run before the new lock is applied.
> - *  Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), June 09, 1995
> - *
> - *  Removed some race conditions in flock_lock_file(), marked other possible
> - *  races. Just grep for FIXME to see them.
> - *  Dmitry Gorodchanin (pgmdsg@ibi.com), February 09, 1996.
> - *
> - *  Addressed Dmitry's concerns. Deadlock checking no longer recursive.
> - *  Lock allocation changed to GFP_ATOMIC as we can't afford to sleep
> - *  once we've checked for blocking and deadlocking.
> - *  Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), April 03, 1996.
> - *
> - *  Initial implementation of mandatory locks. SunOS turned out to be
> - *  a rotten model, so I implemented the "obvious" semantics.
> - *  See 'Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.rst' for details.
> - *  Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), April 06, 1996.
> - *
> - *  Don't allow mandatory locks on mmap()'ed files. Added simple functions to
> - *  check if a file has mandatory locks, used by mmap(), open() and creat() to
> - *  see if system call should be rejected. Ref. HP-UX/SunOS/Solaris Reference
> - *  Manual, Section 2.
> - *  Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), April 09, 1996.
> - *
> - *  Tidied up block list handling. Added '/proc/locks' interface.
> - *  Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), April 24, 1996.
> - *
> - *  Fixed deadlock condition for pathological code that mixes calls to
> - *  flock() and fcntl().
> - *  Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), April 29, 1996.
> - *
> - *  Allow only one type of locking scheme (FL_POSIX or FL_FLOCK) to be in use
> - *  for a given file at a time. Changed the CONFIG_LOCK_MANDATORY scheme to
> - *  guarantee sensible behaviour in the case where file system modules might
> - *  be compiled with different options than the kernel itself.
> - *  Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), May 15, 1996.
> - *
> - *  Added a couple of missing wake_up() calls. Thanks to Thomas Meckel
> - *  (Thomas.Meckel@mni.fh-giessen.de) for spotting this.
> - *  Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), May 15, 1996.
> - *
> - *  Changed FL_POSIX locks to use the block list in the same way as FL_FLOCK
> - *  locks. Changed process synchronisation to avoid dereferencing locks that
> - *  have already been freed.
> - *  Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), Sep 21, 1996.
> - *
> - *  Made the block list a circular list to minimise searching in the list.
> - *  Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), Sep 25, 1996.
> - *
> - *  Made mandatory locking a mount option. Default is not to allow mandatory
> - *  locking.
> - *  Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), Oct 04, 1996.
> - *
> - *  Some adaptations for NFS support.
> - *  Olaf Kirch (okir@monad.swb.de), Dec 1996,
> - *
> - *  Fixed /proc/locks interface so that we can't overrun the buffer we are handed.
> - *  Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), May 12, 1997.
> - *
> - *  Use slab allocator instead of kmalloc/kfree.
> - *  Use generic list implementation from <linux/list.h>.
> - *  Sped up posix_locks_deadlock by only considering blocked locks.
> - *  Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>, March, 2000.
> - *
> - *  Leases and LOCK_MAND
> - *  Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>, June, 2000.
> - *  Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>, June, 2000.
>   *
>   * Locking conflicts and dependencies:
>   * If multiple threads attempt to lock the same byte (or flock the same file)

Thanks, Bruce (and Mauro). Applied to the locks-next branch (and I
dropped Mauro's patch that touched the same area). It should make v5.16.

Cheers,
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>