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, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/afs/flock.c b/fs/afs/flock.c
index 0931bc1325eb..757d664575dd 100644
--- a/fs/afs/flock.c
+++ b/fs/afs/flock.c
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
  * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  */
 
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
 #include "internal.h"
 
 #define AFS_LOCK_GRANTED	0
@@ -274,7 +273,7 @@ static int afs_do_setlk(struct file *file, struct file_lock *fl)
 
 	type = (fl->fl_type == F_RDLCK) ? AFS_LOCK_READ : AFS_LOCK_WRITE;
 
-	lock_kernel();
+	lock_flocks();
 
 	/* make sure we've got a callback on this file and that our view of the
 	 * data version is up to date */
@@ -421,7 +420,7 @@ given_lock:
 	afs_vnode_fetch_status(vnode, NULL, key);
 
 error:
-	unlock_kernel();
+	unlock_flocks();
 	_leave(" = %d", ret);
 	return ret;