From 3bc303c254335dbd7c7012cc1760b12f1d5514d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Layton Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:47:50 -0400 Subject: cifs: convert oplock breaks to use slow_work facility (try #4) This is the fourth respin of the patch to convert oplock breaks to use the slow_work facility. A customer of ours was testing a backport of one of the earlier patchsets, and hit a "Busy inodes after umount..." problem. An oplock break job had raced with a umount, and the superblock got torn down and its memory reused. When the oplock break job tried to dereference the inode->i_sb, the kernel oopsed. This patchset has the oplock break job hold an inode and vfsmount reference until the oplock break completes. With this, there should be no need to take a tcon reference (the vfsmount implicitly holds one already). Currently, when an oplock break comes in there's a chance that the oplock break job won't occur if the allocation of the oplock_q_entry fails. There are also some rather nasty races in the allocation and handling these structs. Rather than allocating oplock queue entries when an oplock break comes in, add a few extra fields to the cifsFileInfo struct. Get rid of the dedicated cifs_oplock_thread as well and queue the oplock break job to the slow_work thread pool. This approach also has the advantage that the oplock break jobs can potentially run in parallel rather than be serialized like they are today. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Steve French --- fs/cifs/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'fs/cifs/Kconfig') diff --git a/fs/cifs/Kconfig b/fs/cifs/Kconfig index 6994a0f54f0..80f35259680 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/cifs/Kconfig @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ config CIFS tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem, SMBFS successor)" depends on INET select NLS + select SLOW_WORK help This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block -- cgit v1.2.3