fs/locks.c: prepare for BKL removal

This prepares the removal of the big kernel lock from the
file locking code. We still use the BKL as long as fs/lockd
uses it and ceph might sleep, but we can flip the definition
to a private spinlock as soon as that's done.
All users outside of fs/lockd get converted to use
lock_flocks() instead of lock_kernel() where appropriate.

Based on an earlier patch to use a spinlock from Matthew
Wilcox, who has attempted this a few times before, the
earliest patch from over 10 years ago turned it into
a semaphore, which ended up being slower than the BKL
and was subsequently reverted.

Someone should do some serious performance testing when
this becomes a spinlock, since this has caused problems
before. Using a spinlock should be at least as good
as the BKL in theory, but who knows...

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/delegation.c b/fs/nfs/delegation.c
index b9c3c43cea1..232a7eead33 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/delegation.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/delegation.c
@@ -71,20 +71,20 @@ static int nfs_delegation_claim_locks(struct nfs_open_context *ctx, struct nfs4_
 	if (inode->i_flock == NULL)
 		goto out;
 
-	/* Protect inode->i_flock using the BKL */
-	lock_kernel();
+	/* Protect inode->i_flock using the file locks lock */
+	lock_flocks();
 	for (fl = inode->i_flock; fl != NULL; fl = fl->fl_next) {
 		if (!(fl->fl_flags & (FL_POSIX|FL_FLOCK)))
 			continue;
 		if (nfs_file_open_context(fl->fl_file) != ctx)
 			continue;
-		unlock_kernel();
+		unlock_flocks();
 		status = nfs4_lock_delegation_recall(state, fl);
 		if (status < 0)
 			goto out;
-		lock_kernel();
+		lock_flocks();
 	}
-	unlock_kernel();
+	unlock_flocks();
 out:
 	return status;
 }