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    nfs: block notification on fs with its own ->lock · 40595cdc
    J. Bruce Fields authored
    NFSv4.1 supports an optional lock notification feature which notifies
    the client when a lock comes available.  (Normally NFSv4 clients just
    poll for locks if necessary.)  To make that work, we need to request a
    blocking lock from the filesystem.
    
    We turned that off for NFS in commit f657f8ee ("nfs: don't atempt
    blocking locks on nfs reexports") [sic] because it actually blocks the
    nfsd thread while waiting for the lock.
    
    Thanks to Vasily Averin for pointing out that NFS isn't the only
    filesystem with that problem.
    
    Any filesystem that leaves ->lock NULL will use posix_lock_file(), which
    does the right thing.  Simplest is just to assume that any filesystem
    that defines its own ->lock is not safe to request a blocking lock from.
    
    So, this patch mostly reverts commit f657f8ee ("nfs: don't atempt
    blocking locks on nfs reexports") [sic] and commit b840be2f ("lockd:
    don't attempt blocking locks on nfs reexports"), and instead uses a
    check of ->lock (Vasily's suggestion) to decide whether to support
    blocking lock notifications on a given filesystem.  Also add a little
    documentation.
    
    Perhaps someday we could add back an export flag later to allow
    filesystems with "good" ->lock methods to support blocking lock
    notifications.
    Reported-by: default avatarVasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
    [ cel: Description rewritten to address checkpatch nits ]
    [ cel: Fixed warning when SUNRPC debugging is disabled ]
    [ cel: Fixed NULL check ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarVasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
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