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locks: defer freeing locks in locks_delete_lock until after i_lock ha…
…s been dropped In commit 72f98e7 (locks: turn lock_flocks into a spinlock), we moved from using the BKL to a global spinlock. With this change, we lost the ability to block in the fl_release_private operation. This is problematic for NFS (and probably some other filesystems as well). Add a new list_head argument to locks_delete_lock. If that argument is non-NULL, then queue any locks that we want to free to the list instead of freeing them. Then, add a new locks_dispose_list function that will walk such a list and call locks_free_lock on them after the i_lock has been dropped. Finally, change all of the callers of locks_delete_lock to pass in a list_head, except for lease_modify. That function can be called long after the i_lock has been acquired. Deferring the freeing of a lease after unlocking it in that function is non-trivial until we overhaul some of the spinlocking in the lease code. Currently though, no filesystem that sets fl_release_private supports leases, so this is not currently a problem. We'll eventually want to make the same change in the lease code, but it needs a lot more work before we can reasonably do so. Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com>
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