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authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2008-03-18 19:00:19 -0400
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2008-09-29 18:13:10 -0400
commitc8ab5f2a13fb41a878863c61a1e27d78f1844b5e (patch)
tree869ce6a2a51581d09011aeb5e804b0d1ab39a7b9 /Documentation
parent8fafa90082ab18859d97627fc454edf12f7efbff (diff)
lockd: don't depend on lockd main loop to end grace
End lockd's grace period using schedule_delayed_work() instead of a check on every pass through the main loop. After a later patch, we'll depend on lockd to end its grace period even if it's not currently handling requests; so it shouldn't depend on being woken up from the main loop to do so. Also, Nakano Hiroaki (who independently produced a similar patch) noticed that the current behavior is buggy in the face of jiffies wraparound: "lockd uses time_before() to determine whether the grace period has expired. This would seem to be enough to avoid timer wrap-around issues, but, unfortunately, that is not the case. The time_* family of comparison functions can be safely used to compare jiffies relatively close in time, but they stop working after approximately LONG_MAX/2 ticks. nfsd can suffer this problem because the time_before() comparison in lockd() is not performed until the first request comes in, which means that if there is no lockd traffic for more than LONG_MAX/2 ticks we are screwed. "The implication of this is that once time_before() starts misbehaving any attempt from a NFS client to execute fcntl() will be received with a NLM_LCK_DENIED_GRACE_PERIOD message for 25 days (assuming HZ=1000). In other words, the 50 seconds grace period could turn into a grace period of 50 days or more. "Note: This bug was analyzed independently by Oda-san <oda@valinux.co.jp> and myself." Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Cc: Nakano Hiroaki <nakano.hiroaki@oss.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Itsuro Oda <oda@valinux.co.jp>
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