ovl: make private mounts longterm

Overlayfs is using clone_private_mount() to create internal mounts for
underlying layers.  These are used for operations requiring a path, such as
dentry_open().

Since these private mounts are not in any namespace they are treated as
short term, "detached" mounts and mntput() involves taking the global
mount_lock, which can result in serious cacheline pingpong.

Make these private mounts longterm instead, which trade the penalty on
mntput() for a slightly longer shutdown time due to an added RCU grace
period when putting these mounts.

Introduce a new helper kern_unmount_many() that can take care of multiple
longterm mounts with a single RCU grace period.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
index 26c093969573..867036aa90b8 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
@@ -858,3 +858,10 @@ be misspelled d_alloc_anon().
 [should've been added in 2016] stale comment in finish_open() nonwithstanding,
 failure exits in ->atomic_open() instances should *NOT* fput() the file,
 no matter what.  Everything is handled by the caller.
+
+---
+
+**mandatory**
+
+clone_private_mount() returns a longterm mount now, so the proper destructor of
+its result is kern_unmount() or kern_unmount_array().