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Trond Myklebust f839c4c199 NFSv4: Remove BKL from the nfsv4 state recovery
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-15 18:10:57 -04:00
Adrian Bunk 1d2e88e73e nfs: make nfs4_drop_state_owner() static
nfs4_drop_state_owner() can now become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-05-16 09:43:31 -07:00
Harvey Harrison 3110ff8048 nfs: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-05-16 09:43:29 -07:00
Trond Myklebust a2b2bb8822 NFSv4: Attempt to use machine credentials in SETCLIENTID calls
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-04-19 16:54:59 -04:00
Trond Myklebust f6a1cc8930 SUNRPC: Add a (empty for the moment) destructor for rpc_wait_queues
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-28 23:17:27 -08:00
Trond Myklebust 5d00837b90 SUNRPC: Run rpc timeout functions as callbacks instead of in softirqs
An audit of the current RPC timeout functions shows that they don't really
ever need to run in the softirq context. As long as the softirq is
able to signal that the wakeup is due to a timeout (which it can do by
setting task->tk_status to -ETIMEDOUT) then the callback functions can just
run as standard task->tk_callback functions (in the rpciod/process
context).

The only possible border-line case would be xprt_timer() for the case of
UDP, when the callback is used to reduce the size of the transport
congestion window. In testing, however, the effect of moving that update
to a callback would appear to be minor.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-25 21:40:44 -08:00
Harvey Harrison 90dc7d2796 nfs: fix sparse warnings
fs/nfs/nfs4state.c:788:34: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
fs/nfs/delegation.c:52:34: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
fs/nfs/idmap.c:312:12: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
fs/nfs/callback_xdr.c:257:6: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
fs/nfs/callback_xdr.c:270:6: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
fs/nfs/callback_xdr.c:281:6: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-20 16:15:44 -05:00
Dan Muntz 497799e7c0 NFS: missing spaces in KERN_WARNING
The warning message for a v4 server returning various bad sequence-ids is
missing spaces.

Signed-off-by: Dan Muntz <dmuntz@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-02-13 23:24:06 -05:00
Chuck Lever 5d8515caeb NFS: eliminate NIPQUAD(clp->cl_addr.sin_addr)
To ensure the NFS client displays IPv6 addresses properly, replace
address family-specific NIPQUAD() invocations with a call to the RPC
client to get a formatted string representing the remote peer's
address.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Aurelien Charbon <aurelien.charbon@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:52 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 2f74c0a056 NFSv4: Clean up the OPEN/CLOSE serialisation code
Reduce the time spent locking the rpc_sequence structure by queuing the
nfs_seqid only when we are ready to take the lock (when calling
nfs_wait_on_sequence).

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:24 -05:00
Trond Myklebust d0dc3701cb NFSv4: Give the lock stateid its own sequence queue
Sharing the open sequence queue causes a deadlock when we try to take
both a lock sequence id and and open sequence id.

This fixes the regression reported by Dimitri Puzin and Jeff Garzik: See

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9712

for details.

Reported-and-tested-by: Dimitri Puzin <bugs@psycast.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-10 13:35:32 -08:00
Trond Myklebust a49c3c7736 NFSv4: Ensure that we wait for the CLOSE request to complete
Otherwise, we do end up breaking close-to-open semantics. We also end up
breaking some of the silly-rename tests in Connectathon on some setups.

Please refer to the bug-report at
	http://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-19 17:19:25 -04:00
Trond Myklebust cd3758e37d NFS: Replace file->private_data with calls to nfs_file_open_context()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:18:31 -04:00
Trond Myklebust ba683031fa NFSv4: Fix a locking regression in nfs4_set_mode_locked()
We don't really need to clear &state->inode_states inside
nfs4_set_mode_locked, and doing so without holding the inode->i_lock would
in any case be a bug...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-08-07 15:13:18 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 6f2e64d3e1 NFSv4: Make the NFS state model work with the nosharedcache mount option
Consider the case where the user has mounted the remote filesystem
server:/foo on the two local directories /bar and /baz using the
nosharedcache mount option. The files /bar/file and /baz/file are
represented by different inodes in the local namespace, but refer to the
same file /foo/file on the server.
Consider the case where a process opens both /bar/file and /baz/file, then
closes /bar/file: because the nfs4_state is not shared between /bar/file
and /baz/file, the kernel will see that the nfs4_state for /bar/file is no
longer referenced, so it will send off a CLOSE rpc call. Unless the
open_owners differ, then that CLOSE call will invalidate the open state on
/baz/file too.

Conclusion: we cannot share open state owners between two different
non-shared mount instances of the same filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:48 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 8bda4e4c98 NFSv4: Fix up stateid locking...
We really don't need to grab both the state->so_owner and the
inode->i_lock.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:43 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 6f43ddccb3 NFSv4: Improve the debugging of bad sequence id errors...
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:42 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 003707c722 NFSv4: Always use the delegation if we have one
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:41 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 1c816efa24 NFSv4: Fix a bug in __nfs4_find_state_byowner
The test for state->state == 0 does not tell you that the stateid is in the
process of being freed. It really tells you that the stateid is not yet
initialised...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:40 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 9f958ab885 NFSv4: Reduce the chances of an open_owner identifier collision
Currently we just use a 32-bit counter.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:39 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 88d9093997 NFSv4: nfs_increment_open_seqid should not return a value
It is a void function...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:39 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 7af654f8d1 NFSv4: Don't reuse expired nfs4_state_owner structs
That just confuses certain NFSv4 servers.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:38 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 27b3f949b7 NFSv4: Fix a credential reference leak in nfs4_get_state_owner()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:38 -04:00
Trond Myklebust b39e625b6e NFSv4: Clean up nfs4_call_async()
Use rpc_run_task() instead of doing it ourselves.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:24 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 4a35bd41af NFSv4: Ensure that nfs4_do_close() doesn't race with umount
nfs4_do_close() does not currently have any way to ensure that the user
won't attempt to unmount the partition while the asynchronous RPC call
is completing. This again may cause Oopses in nfs_update_inode().

Add a vfsmount argument to nfs4_close_state to ensure that the partition
remains mounted while we're closing the file.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:24 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 10afec9081 NFS: Fix some 'sparse' warnings...
- fs/nfs/dir.c:610:8: warning: symbol 'nfs_llseek_dir' was not declared.
   Should it be static?
 - fs/nfs/dir.c:636:5: warning: symbol 'nfs_fsync_dir' was not declared.
   Should it be static?
 - fs/nfs/write.c:925:19: warning: symbol 'req' shadows an earlier one
 - fs/nfs/write.c:61:6: warning: symbol 'nfs_commit_rcu_free' was not
   declared. Should it be static?
 - fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c:793:5: warning: symbol 'nfs4_recover_expired_lease'
   was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-05-14 19:33:46 -04:00
David Howells 54ceac4515 NFS: Share NFS superblocks per-protocol per-server per-FSID
The attached patch makes NFS share superblocks between mounts from the same
server and FSID over the same protocol.

It does this by creating each superblock with a false root and returning the
real root dentry in the vfsmount presented by get_sb(). The root dentry set
starts off as an anonymous dentry if we don't already have the dentry for its
inode, otherwise it simply returns the dentry we already have.

We may thus end up with several trees of dentries in the superblock, and if at
some later point one of anonymous tree roots is discovered by normal filesystem
activity to be located in another tree within the superblock, the anonymous
root is named and materialises attached to the second tree at the appropriate
point.

Why do it this way? Why not pass an extra argument to the mount() syscall to
indicate the subpath and then pathwalk from the server root to the desired
directory? You can't guarantee this will work for two reasons:

 (1) The root and intervening nodes may not be accessible to the client.

     With NFS2 and NFS3, for instance, mountd is called on the server to get
     the filehandle for the tip of a path. mountd won't give us handles for
     anything we don't have permission to access, and so we can't set up NFS
     inodes for such nodes, and so can't easily set up dentries (we'd have to
     have ghost inodes or something).

     With this patch we don't actually create dentries until we get handles
     from the server that we can use to set up their inodes, and we don't
     actually bind them into the tree until we know for sure where they go.

 (2) Inaccessible symbolic links.

     If we're asked to mount two exports from the server, eg:

	mount warthog:/warthog/aaa/xxx /mmm
	mount warthog:/warthog/bbb/yyy /nnn

     We may not be able to access anything nearer the root than xxx and yyy,
     but we may find out later that /mmm/www/yyy, say, is actually the same
     directory as the one mounted on /nnn. What we might then find out, for
     example, is that /warthog/bbb was actually a symbolic link to
     /warthog/aaa/xxx/www, but we can't actually determine that by talking to
     the server until /warthog is made available by NFS.

     This would lead to having constructed an errneous dentry tree which we
     can't easily fix. We can end up with a dentry marked as a directory when
     it should actually be a symlink, or we could end up with an apparently
     hardlinked directory.

     With this patch we need not make assumptions about the type of a dentry
     for which we can't retrieve information, nor need we assume we know its
     place in the grand scheme of things until we actually see that place.

This patch reduces the possibility of aliasing in the inode and page caches for
inodes that may be accessed by more than one NFS export. It also reduces the
number of superblocks required for NFS where there are many NFS exports being
used from a server (home directory server + autofs for example).

This in turn makes it simpler to do local caching of network filesystems, as it
can then be guaranteed that there won't be links from multiple inodes in
separate superblocks to the same cache file.

Obviously, cache aliasing between different levels of NFS protocol could still
be a problem, but at least that gives us another key to use when indexing the
cache.

This patch makes the following changes:

 (1) The server record construction/destruction has been abstracted out into
     its own set of functions to make things easier to get right.  These have
     been moved into fs/nfs/client.c.

     All the code in fs/nfs/client.c has to do with the management of
     connections to servers, and doesn't touch superblocks in any way; the
     remaining code in fs/nfs/super.c has to do with VFS superblock management.

 (2) The sequence of events undertaken by NFS mount is now reordered:

     (a) A volume representation (struct nfs_server) is allocated.

     (b) A server representation (struct nfs_client) is acquired.  This may be
     	 allocated or shared, and is keyed on server address, port and NFS
     	 version.

     (c) If allocated, the client representation is initialised.  The state
     	 member variable of nfs_client is used to prevent a race during
     	 initialisation from two mounts.

     (d) For NFS4 a simple pathwalk is performed, walking from FH to FH to find
     	 the root filehandle for the mount (fs/nfs/getroot.c).  For NFS2/3 we
     	 are given the root FH in advance.

     (e) The volume FSID is probed for on the root FH.

     (f) The volume representation is initialised from the FSINFO record
     	 retrieved on the root FH.

     (g) sget() is called to acquire a superblock.  This may be allocated or
     	 shared, keyed on client pointer and FSID.

     (h) If allocated, the superblock is initialised.

     (i) If the superblock is shared, then the new nfs_server record is
     	 discarded.

     (j) The root dentry for this mount is looked up from the root FH.

     (k) The root dentry for this mount is assigned to the vfsmount.

 (3) nfs_readdir_lookup() creates dentries for each of the entries readdir()
     returns; this function now attaches disconnected trees from alternate
     roots that happen to be discovered attached to a directory being read (in
     the same way nfs_lookup() is made to do for lookup ops).

     The new d_materialise_unique() function is now used to do this, thus
     permitting the whole thing to be done under one set of locks, and thus
     avoiding any race between mount and lookup operations on the same
     directory.

 (4) The client management code uses a new debug facility: NFSDBG_CLIENT which
     is set by echoing 1024 to /proc/net/sunrpc/nfs_debug.

 (5) Clone mounts are now called xdev mounts.

 (6) Use the dentry passed to the statfs() op as the handle for retrieving fs
     statistics rather than the root dentry of the superblock (which is now a
     dummy).

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-09-22 23:24:37 -04:00
David Howells 24c8dbbb5f NFS: Generalise the nfs_client structure
Generalise the nfs_client structure by:

 (1) Moving nfs_client to a more general place (nfs_fs_sb.h).

 (2) Renaming its maintenance routines to be non-NFS4 specific.

 (3) Move those maintenance routines to a new non-NFS4 specific file (client.c)
     and move the declarations to internal.h.

 (4) Make nfs_find/get_client() take a full sockaddr_in to include the port
     number (will be required for NFS2/3).

 (5) Make nfs_find/get_client() take the NFS protocol version (again will be
     required to differentiate NFS2, 3 & 4 client records).

Also:

 (6) Make nfs_client construction proceed akin to inodes, marking them as under
     construction and providing a function to indicate completion.

 (7) Make nfs_get_client() wait interruptibly if it finds a client that it can
     share, but that client is currently being constructed.

 (8) Make nfs4_create_client() use (6) and (7) instead of locking cl_sem.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-09-22 23:24:33 -04:00
David Howells 7539bbab80 NFS: Rename nfs_server::nfs4_state
Rename nfs_server::nfs4_state to nfs_client as it will be used to represent the
client state for NFS2 and NFS3 also.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-09-22 23:24:32 -04:00
David Howells adfa6f980b NFS: Rename struct nfs4_client to struct nfs_client
Rename struct nfs4_client to struct nfs_client so that it can become the basis
for a general client record for NFS2 and NFS3 in addition to NFS4.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-09-22 23:24:31 -04:00
Jörn Engel 6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Trond Myklebust 51581f3bf9 NFSv4: SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM should handle NFS4ERR_DELAY/NFS4ERR_RESOURCE
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20 13:44:47 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 286d7d6a0c NFSv4: Remove requirement for machine creds for the "setclientid" operation
Use a cred from the nfs4_client->cl_state_owners list.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06 14:58:47 -05:00
Trond Myklebust b4454fe1a7 NFSv4: Remove requirement for machine creds for the "renew" operation
In RFC3530, the RENEW operation is allowed to use either

 the same principal, RPC security flavour and (if RPCSEC_GSS), the same
  mechanism and service that was used for SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM

 OR

 Any principal, RPC security flavour and service combination that
 currently has an OPEN file on the server.

 Choose the latter since that doesn't require us to keep credentials for
 the same principal for the entire duration of the mount.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06 14:58:47 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 5043e900f5 NFS: Convert instances of kernel_thread() to kthread()
Convert private implementations in NFSv4 state recovery and delegation
 code to use kthreads.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06 14:58:46 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 433fbe4c88 NFSv4: State recovery cleanup
Use wait_on_bit() when waiting for state recovery to complete.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06 14:58:45 -05:00
Trond Myklebust e761692381 NFSv4: Make nfs4_state track O_RDWR, O_RDONLY and O_WRONLY separately
A closer reading of RFC3530 reveals that OPEN_DOWNGRADE must always
 specify a access modes that have been the argument of a previous OPEN
 operation.
 IOW: doing OPEN(O_RDWR) and then OPEN_DOWNGRADE(O_WRONLY) is forbidden
 unless the user called OPEN(O_WRONLY)

 In order to fix that, we really need to track the three possible open
 states separately.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-01-06 14:58:43 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 36f20c6df7 NFSv4: Fix buggy nfs_wait_on_sequence()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-11-25 17:11:28 -05:00
Jesper Juhl f99d49adf5 [PATCH] kfree cleanup: fs
This is the fs/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch.

Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in fs/.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:54:06 -08:00
Trond Myklebust 43b2a33aa8 NFSv4: Fix recovery of flock() locks.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-11-04 15:35:30 -05:00
Trond Myklebust d530838bfa NFSv4: Fix problem with OPEN_DOWNGRADE
RFC 3530 states that for OPEN_DOWNGRADE "The share_access and share_deny
 bits specified must be exactly equal to the union of the share_access and
 share_deny bits specified for some subset of the OPENs in effect for
 current openowner on the current file.

 Setattr is currently violating the NFSv4 rules for OPEN_DOWNGRADE in that
 it may cause a downgrade from OPEN4_SHARE_ACCESS_BOTH to
 OPEN4_SHARE_ACCESS_WRITE despite the fact that there exists no open file
 with O_WRONLY access mode.

 Fix the problem by replacing nfs4_find_state() with a modified version of
 nfs_find_open_context().

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-11-04 15:33:38 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 4cecb76ff8 NFSv4: Fix a race between open() and close()
We must not remove the nfs4_state structure from the inode open lists
 before we are in sequence lock.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-11-04 15:32:58 -05:00
Trond Myklebust ec07342828 NFSv4: Fix up locking for nfs4_state_owner
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-10-20 14:22:47 -07:00
Trond Myklebust 4e51336a00 NFSv4: Final tweak to sequence id
Sacrifice queueing fairness for performance.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-10-20 14:22:41 -07:00
Trond Myklebust 7f709a48fa NFSv4: Fix an oopsable condition in nfs_free_seqid
Storing a pointer to the struct rpc_task in the nfs_seqid is broken
 since the nfs_seqid may be freed well after the task has been destroyed.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-10-18 23:19:39 -07:00
Trond Myklebust faf5f49c2d NFSv4: Make NFS clean up byte range locks asynchronously
Currently we fail to do so if the process was signalled.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-10-18 14:20:15 -07:00
Trond Myklebust 83c9d41e45 NFSv4: Remove nfs4_client->cl_sem from close() path
We no longer need to worry about collisions between close() and the state
 recovery code, since the new close will automatically recheck the
 file state once it is done waiting on its sequence slot.

 Ditto for the nfs4_proc_locku() procedure.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-10-18 14:20:13 -07:00
Trond Myklebust e6dfa553cf NFSv4: Remove obsolete state_owner and lock_owner semaphores
OPEN, CLOSE, etc no longer need these semaphores to ensure ordering of
 requests.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-10-18 14:20:13 -07:00
Trond Myklebust 9512135df1 NFSv4: Fix a potential CLOSE race
Once the state_owner and lock_owner semaphores get removed, it will be
 possible for other OPEN requests to reopen the same file if they have
 lower sequence ids than our CLOSE call.
 This patch ensures that we recheck the file state once
 nfs_wait_on_sequence() has completed waiting.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-10-18 14:20:12 -07:00
Trond Myklebust cee54fc944 NFSv4: Add functions to order RPC calls
NFSv4 file state-changing functions such as OPEN, CLOSE, LOCK,... are all
 labelled with "sequence identifiers" in order to prevent the server from
 reordering RPC requests, as this could cause its file state to
 become out of sync with the client.

 Currently the NFS client code enforces this ordering locally using
 semaphores to restrict access to structures until the RPC call is done.
 This, of course, only works with synchronous RPC calls, since the
 user process must first grab the semaphore.
 By dropping semaphores, and instead teaching the RPC engine to hold
 the RPC calls until they are ready to be sent, we can extend this
 process to work nicely with asynchronous RPC calls too.

 This patch adds a new list called "rpc_sequence" that defines the order
 of the RPC calls to be sent. We add one such list for each state_owner.
 When an RPC call is ready to be sent, it checks if it is top of the
 rpc_sequence list. If so, it proceeds. If not, it goes back to sleep,
 and loops until it hits top of the list.
 Once the RPC call has completed, it can then bump the sequence id counter,
 and remove itself from the rpc_sequence list, and then wake up the next
 sleeper.

 Note that the state_owner sequence ids and lock_owner sequence ids are
 all indexed to the same rpc_sequence list, so OPEN, LOCK,... requests
 are all ordered w.r.t. each other.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-10-18 14:20:12 -07:00