linux/Documentation/filesystems
Jeff Layton 1c8c601a8c locks: protect most of the file_lock handling with i_lock
Having a global lock that protects all of this code is a clear
scalability problem. Instead of doing that, move most of the code to be
protected by the i_lock instead. The exceptions are the global lists
that the ->fl_link sits on, and the ->fl_block list.

->fl_link is what connects these structures to the
global lists, so we must ensure that we hold those locks when iterating
over or updating these lists.

Furthermore, sound deadlock detection requires that we hold the
blocked_list state steady while checking for loops. We also must ensure
that the search and update to the list are atomic.

For the checking and insertion side of the blocked_list, push the
acquisition of the global lock into __posix_lock_file and ensure that
checking and update of the  blocked_list is done without dropping the
lock in between.

On the removal side, when waking up blocked lock waiters, take the
global lock before walking the blocked list and dequeue the waiters from
the global list prior to removal from the fl_block list.

With this, deadlock detection should be race free while we minimize
excessive file_lock_lock thrashing.

Finally, in order to avoid a lock inversion problem when handling
/proc/locks output we must ensure that manipulations of the fl_block
list are also protected by the file_lock_lock.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:57:42 +04:00
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caching FS-Cache: Provide proper invalidation 2012-12-20 22:04:07 +00:00
configfs configfs: convert to umode_t 2012-01-03 22:54:57 -05:00
nfs SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS authentication. 2013-04-26 11:41:28 -04:00
pohmelfs Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation 2012-03-07 16:08:24 +01:00
00-INDEX Introduce a new file system, Flash-Friendly File System (F2FS), to Linux 3.8. 2012-12-20 13:54:52 -08:00
9p.txt 9p: fix 9p.txt to advertise msize instead of maxdata 2011-10-24 11:13:12 -05:00
adfs.txt
affs.txt
afs.txt
autofs4-mount-control.txt
automount-support.txt
befs.txt Documentation: befs.txt: no maintainer, orphaned 2011-08-13 18:34:03 -07:00
bfs.txt
btrfs.txt btrfs: document mount options in Documentation/fs/btrfs.txt 2013-05-06 15:54:26 -04:00
ceph.txt ceph: enable/disable dentry complete flags via mount option 2012-01-12 11:00:40 -08:00
cifs.txt
coda.txt
cramfs.txt
debugfs.txt debugfs: more tightly restrict default mount mode 2012-08-27 13:42:02 -07:00
devpts.txt
directory-locking
dlmfs.txt
dnotify.txt
dnotify_test.c
ecryptfs.txt
efivarfs.txt efivarfs: Add documentation for the EFI variable filesystem 2012-10-30 10:39:18 +00:00
exofs.txt
ext2.txt
ext3.txt ext3: update documentation with barrier=1 default 2012-04-11 11:12:45 +02:00
ext4.txt ext4: introduce reserved space 2013-04-09 22:11:22 -04:00
f2fs.txt f2fs: update f2fs.txt related with discard at mkfs 2013-04-03 17:27:52 +09:00
fiemap.txt
files.txt Wrap accesses to the fd_sets in struct fdtable 2012-02-19 10:30:52 -08:00
fuse.txt
gfs2-glocks.txt GFS2: Update glock doc to add new stats info 2012-05-10 12:41:40 +01:00
gfs2-uevents.txt Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation 2012-03-07 16:08:24 +01:00
gfs2.txt GFS2: Update main gfs2 doc 2012-05-10 11:45:31 +01:00
hfs.txt Documentation: HFS is orphaned 2011-11-04 12:01:48 -07:00
hfsplus.txt
hpfs.txt
inotify.txt Documentation: fix inotify source file paths 2011-11-04 12:01:47 -07:00
isofs.txt
jfs.txt jfs: Remove obsolete email address 2012-09-17 12:00:01 -05:00
Locking locks: protect most of the file_lock handling with i_lock 2013-06-29 12:57:42 +04:00
locks.txt doc: fix broken references 2011-09-27 18:08:04 +02:00
logfs.txt
Makefile
mandatory-locking.txt
ncpfs.txt
nilfs2.txt nilfs2: remove resize from unsupported features list 2011-07-13 16:08:59 +09:00
ntfs.txt
ocfs2.txt
omfs.txt
path-lookup.txt
porting [readdir] ->readdir() is gone 2013-06-29 12:57:04 +04:00
proc.txt docs: update documentation about /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> fanotify output 2012-12-17 17:15:28 -08:00
qnx6.txt Documentation: Fix typo in multiple files in Documentation 2012-04-16 14:37:13 +02:00
quota.txt
ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt Documentation: Fix Broken URL "freshmeat" 2012-02-21 11:43:45 +01:00
relay.txt
romfs.txt
seq_file.txt
sharedsubtree.txt
spufs.txt
squashfs.txt Squashfs: Update documentation to include xattrs 2011-12-30 01:20:24 +00:00
sysfs-pci.txt
sysfs-tagging.txt
sysfs.txt sysfs: propagate umode_t 2012-01-03 22:55:03 -05:00
sysv-fs.txt
tmpfs.txt
ubifs.txt UBIFS: switch self-check knobs to debugfs 2011-07-04 10:54:28 +03:00
udf.txt
ufs.txt
vfat.txt Documentation: update nfs option in filesystem/vfat.txt 2013-04-29 18:28:41 -07:00
vfs.txt Don't pass inode to ->d_hash() and ->d_compare() 2013-06-29 12:57:36 +04:00
xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt
xfs-self-describing-metadata.txt xfs: add metadata CRC documentation 2013-04-27 13:27:43 -05:00
xfs.txt xfs: disable noattr2/attr2 mount options for CRC enabled filesystems 2013-06-06 10:51:34 -05:00
xip.txt