gfs2: Introduce flag for glock holder auto-demotion

This patch introduces a new HIF_MAY_DEMOTE flag and infrastructure that
will allow glocks to be demoted automatically on locking conflicts.
When a locking request comes in that isn't compatible with the locking
state of an active holder and that holder has the HIF_MAY_DEMOTE flag
set, the holder will be demoted before the incoming locking request is
granted.

Note that this mechanism demotes active holders (with the HIF_HOLDER
flag set), while before we were only demoting glocks without any active
holders.  This allows processes to keep hold of locks that may form a
cyclic locking dependency; the core glock logic will then break those
dependencies in case a conflicting locking request occurs.  We'll use
this to avoid giving up the inode glock proactively before faulting in
pages.

Processes that allow a glock holder to be taken away indicate this by
calling gfs2_holder_allow_demote(), which sets the HIF_MAY_DEMOTE flag.
Later, they call gfs2_holder_disallow_demote() to clear the flag again,
and then they check if their holder is still queued: if it is, they are
still holding the glock; if it isn't, they can re-acquire the glock (or
abort).

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/glock.h b/fs/gfs2/glock.h
index 31a8f2f649b5..9012487da4c6 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/glock.h
+++ b/fs/gfs2/glock.h
@@ -150,6 +150,8 @@ static inline struct gfs2_holder *gfs2_glock_is_locked_by_me(struct gfs2_glock *
 	list_for_each_entry(gh, &gl->gl_holders, gh_list) {
 		if (!test_bit(HIF_HOLDER, &gh->gh_iflags))
 			break;
+		if (test_bit(HIF_MAY_DEMOTE, &gh->gh_iflags))
+			continue;
 		if (gh->gh_owner_pid == pid)
 			goto out;
 	}
@@ -325,6 +327,24 @@ static inline void glock_clear_object(struct gfs2_glock *gl, void *object)
 	spin_unlock(&gl->gl_lockref.lock);
 }
 
+static inline void gfs2_holder_allow_demote(struct gfs2_holder *gh)
+{
+	struct gfs2_glock *gl = gh->gh_gl;
+
+	spin_lock(&gl->gl_lockref.lock);
+	set_bit(HIF_MAY_DEMOTE, &gh->gh_iflags);
+	spin_unlock(&gl->gl_lockref.lock);
+}
+
+static inline void gfs2_holder_disallow_demote(struct gfs2_holder *gh)
+{
+	struct gfs2_glock *gl = gh->gh_gl;
+
+	spin_lock(&gl->gl_lockref.lock);
+	clear_bit(HIF_MAY_DEMOTE, &gh->gh_iflags);
+	spin_unlock(&gl->gl_lockref.lock);
+}
+
 extern void gfs2_inode_remember_delete(struct gfs2_glock *gl, u64 generation);
 extern bool gfs2_inode_already_deleted(struct gfs2_glock *gl, u64 generation);