From dc732906c2450939c319fec6e258aa89ecb5a632 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Peterson Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 20:51:23 +0200 Subject: gfs2: Introduce flag for glock holder auto-demotion This patch introduces a new HIF_MAY_DEMOTE flag and infrastructure that will allow glocks to be demoted automatically on locking conflicts. When a locking request comes in that isn't compatible with the locking state of an active holder and that holder has the HIF_MAY_DEMOTE flag set, the holder will be demoted before the incoming locking request is granted. Note that this mechanism demotes active holders (with the HIF_HOLDER flag set), while before we were only demoting glocks without any active holders. This allows processes to keep hold of locks that may form a cyclic locking dependency; the core glock logic will then break those dependencies in case a conflicting locking request occurs. We'll use this to avoid giving up the inode glock proactively before faulting in pages. Processes that allow a glock holder to be taken away indicate this by calling gfs2_holder_allow_demote(), which sets the HIF_MAY_DEMOTE flag. Later, they call gfs2_holder_disallow_demote() to clear the flag again, and then they check if their holder is still queued: if it is, they are still holding the glock; if it isn't, they can re-acquire the glock (or abort). Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher --- fs/gfs2/glock.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/gfs2/glock.h') diff --git a/fs/gfs2/glock.h b/fs/gfs2/glock.h index 31a8f2f649b5..9012487da4c6 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/glock.h +++ b/fs/gfs2/glock.h @@ -150,6 +150,8 @@ static inline struct gfs2_holder *gfs2_glock_is_locked_by_me(struct gfs2_glock * list_for_each_entry(gh, &gl->gl_holders, gh_list) { if (!test_bit(HIF_HOLDER, &gh->gh_iflags)) break; + if (test_bit(HIF_MAY_DEMOTE, &gh->gh_iflags)) + continue; if (gh->gh_owner_pid == pid) goto out; } @@ -325,6 +327,24 @@ static inline void glock_clear_object(struct gfs2_glock *gl, void *object) spin_unlock(&gl->gl_lockref.lock); } +static inline void gfs2_holder_allow_demote(struct gfs2_holder *gh) +{ + struct gfs2_glock *gl = gh->gh_gl; + + spin_lock(&gl->gl_lockref.lock); + set_bit(HIF_MAY_DEMOTE, &gh->gh_iflags); + spin_unlock(&gl->gl_lockref.lock); +} + +static inline void gfs2_holder_disallow_demote(struct gfs2_holder *gh) +{ + struct gfs2_glock *gl = gh->gh_gl; + + spin_lock(&gl->gl_lockref.lock); + clear_bit(HIF_MAY_DEMOTE, &gh->gh_iflags); + spin_unlock(&gl->gl_lockref.lock); +} + extern void gfs2_inode_remember_delete(struct gfs2_glock *gl, u64 generation); extern bool gfs2_inode_already_deleted(struct gfs2_glock *gl, u64 generation); -- cgit v1.2.3