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, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
index cf0d2ff..a7292fc 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 */
 
 #include <linux/file.h>
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/swap.h>
@@ -3895,7 +3895,7 @@ check_for_locks(struct nfs4_file *filp, struct nfs4_stateowner *lowner)
 	struct inode *inode = filp->fi_inode;
 	int status = 0;
 
-	lock_kernel();
+	lock_flocks();
 	for (flpp = &inode->i_flock; *flpp != NULL; flpp = &(*flpp)->fl_next) {
 		if ((*flpp)->fl_owner == (fl_owner_t)lowner) {
 			status = 1;
@@ -3903,7 +3903,7 @@ check_for_locks(struct nfs4_file *filp, struct nfs4_stateowner *lowner)
 		}
 	}
 out:
-	unlock_kernel();
+	unlock_flocks();
 	return status;
 }