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authorNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>2008-06-10 08:40:35 -0400
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2008-06-23 13:02:49 -0400
commitbedbdd8bada194a690d2901801bf8451965086b3 (patch)
treedc7ea15dd52370429bd63cd6803d6402cebbd50b /net
parent0d169ca136357d51a65d686f3c84866a8ba20ae9 (diff)
knfsd: Replace lock_kernel with a mutex for nfsd thread startup/shutdown locking.
This removes the BKL from the RPC service creation codepath. The BKL really isn't adequate for this job since some of this info needs protection across sleeps. Also, add some comments to try and clarify how the locking should work and to make it clear that the BKL isn't necessary as long as there is adequate locking between tasks when touching the svc_serv fields. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/sunrpc/svc.c15
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc.c b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
index 01c7e311b90..7bffaff2a3a 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svc.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
@@ -461,7 +461,8 @@ svc_create_pooled(struct svc_program *prog, unsigned int bufsize,
EXPORT_SYMBOL(svc_create_pooled);
/*
- * Destroy an RPC service. Should be called with the BKL held
+ * Destroy an RPC service. Should be called with appropriate locking to
+ * protect the sv_nrthreads, sv_permsocks and sv_tempsocks.
*/
void
svc_destroy(struct svc_serv *serv)
@@ -578,9 +579,10 @@ out_enomem:
EXPORT_SYMBOL(svc_prepare_thread);
/*
- * Create a thread in the given pool. Caller must hold BKL.
- * On a NUMA or SMP machine, with a multi-pool serv, the thread
- * will be restricted to run on the cpus belonging to the pool.
+ * Create a thread in the given pool. Caller must hold BKL or another lock to
+ * serialize access to the svc_serv struct. On a NUMA or SMP machine, with a
+ * multi-pool serv, the thread will be restricted to run on the cpus belonging
+ * to the pool.
*/
static int
__svc_create_thread(svc_thread_fn func, struct svc_serv *serv,
@@ -674,7 +676,7 @@ found_pool:
* of threads the given number. If `pool' is non-NULL, applies
* only to threads in that pool, otherwise round-robins between
* all pools. Must be called with a svc_get() reference and
- * the BKL held.
+ * the BKL or another lock to protect access to svc_serv fields.
*
* Destroying threads relies on the service threads filling in
* rqstp->rq_task, which only the nfs ones do. Assumes the serv
@@ -722,7 +724,8 @@ svc_set_num_threads(struct svc_serv *serv, struct svc_pool *pool, int nrservs)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(svc_set_num_threads);
/*
- * Called from a server thread as it's exiting. Caller must hold BKL.
+ * Called from a server thread as it's exiting. Caller must hold the BKL or
+ * the "service mutex", whichever is appropriate for the service.
*/
void
svc_exit_thread(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)