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authorBenjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>2019-05-23 16:45:48 +0200
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>2019-07-03 23:52:09 +0200
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parentlockd: Show pid of lockd for remote locks (diff)
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locks: Cleanup lm_compare_owner and lm_owner_key
After the update to use nlm_lockowners for the NLM server, there are no more users of lm_compare_owner and lm_owner_key. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking14
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index dac435575384..204dd3ea36bb 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -361,8 +361,6 @@ so fl_release_private called on a lease should not block.
----------------------- lock_manager_operations ---------------------------
prototypes:
- int (*lm_compare_owner)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *);
- unsigned long (*lm_owner_key)(struct file_lock *);
void (*lm_notify)(struct file_lock *); /* unblock callback */
int (*lm_grant)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *, int);
void (*lm_break)(struct file_lock *); /* break_lease callback */
@@ -371,23 +369,11 @@ prototypes:
locking rules:
inode->i_lock blocked_lock_lock may block
-lm_compare_owner: yes[1] maybe no
-lm_owner_key yes[1] yes no
lm_notify: yes yes no
lm_grant: no no no
lm_break: yes no no
lm_change yes no no
-[1]: ->lm_compare_owner and ->lm_owner_key are generally called with
-*an* inode->i_lock held. It may not be the i_lock of the inode
-associated with either file_lock argument! This is the case with deadlock
-detection, since the code has to chase down the owners of locks that may
-be entirely unrelated to the one on which the lock is being acquired.
-For deadlock detection however, the blocked_lock_lock is also held. The
-fact that these locks are held ensures that the file_locks do not
-disappear out from under you while doing the comparison or generating an
-owner key.
-
--------------------------- buffer_head -----------------------------------
prototypes:
void (*b_end_io)(struct buffer_head *bh, int uptodate);