lockd: add doc to enable EXPORT_OP_ASYNC_LOCK
This patch adds a note to enable EXPORT_OP_ASYNC_LOCK for asynchronous lock request handling. Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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* To avoid blocking kernel daemons, such as lockd, that need to acquire POSIX
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* locks, the ->lock() interface may return asynchronously, before the lock has
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* been granted or denied by the underlying filesystem, if (and only if)
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* lm_grant is set. Callers expecting ->lock() to return asynchronously
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* will only use F_SETLK, not F_SETLKW; they will set FL_SLEEP if (and only if)
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* the request is for a blocking lock. When ->lock() does return asynchronously,
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* it must return FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED, and call ->lm_grant() when the lock
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* request completes.
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* lm_grant is set. Additionally EXPORT_OP_ASYNC_LOCK in export_operations
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* flags need to be set.
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*
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* Callers expecting ->lock() to return asynchronously will only use F_SETLK,
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* not F_SETLKW; they will set FL_SLEEP if (and only if) the request is for a
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* blocking lock. When ->lock() does return asynchronously, it must return
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* FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED, and call ->lm_grant() when the lock request completes.
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* If the request is for non-blocking lock the file system should return
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* FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED then try to get the lock and call the callback routine
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* with the result. If the request timed out the callback routine will return a
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