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Benjamin Coddington 8cf9a01edc
fs: Introduce FOP_ASYNC_LOCK
Some lock managers (NLM, kNFSD) fastidiously avoid blocking their
kernel threads while servicing blocking locks.  If a filesystem supports
asynchronous lock requests those lock managers can use notifications to
quickly inform clients they have acquired a file lock.

Historically, only posix_lock_file() was capable of supporting asynchronous
locks so the check for support was simply file_operations->lock(), but with
recent changes in DLM, both GFS2 and OCFS2 also support asynchronous locks
and have started signalling their support with EXPORT_OP_ASYNC_LOCK.

We recently noticed that those changes dropped the checks for whether a
filesystem simply defaults to posix_lock_file(), so async lock
notifications have not been attempted for NLM and NFSv4.1+ for most
filesystems.  While trying to fix this it has become clear that testing
both the export flag combined with testing ->lock() creates quite a
layering mess.  It seems appropriate to signal support with a fop_flag.

Add FOP_ASYNC_LOCK so that filesystems with ->lock() can signal their
capability to handle lock requests asynchronously.  Add a helper for
lock managers to properly test that support.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3330d5a324abe2ce9c1dafe89cacdc6db41945d1.1726083391.git.bcodding@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
History 2024-09-12 14:39:05 +02:00
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