parallel lookups: actual switch to rwsem

ta-da!

The main issue is the lack of down_write_killable(), so the places
like readdir.c switched to plain inode_lock(); once killable
variants of rwsem primitives appear, that'll be dealt with.

lockdep side also might need more work

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro
2016-04-15 15:08:36 -04:00
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@@ -539,3 +539,21 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
it's a symlink. Checking ->i_mode is really needed now. In-tree we had
to fix shmem_destroy_callback() that used to take that kind of shortcut;
watch out, since that shortcut is no longer valid.
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[mandatory]
->i_mutex is replaced with ->i_rwsem now. inode_lock() et.al. work as
they used to - they just take it exclusive. However, ->lookup() may be
called with parent locked shared. Its instances must not
* use d_instantiate) and d_rehash() separately - use d_add() or
d_splice_alias() instead.
* use d_rehash() alone - call d_add(new_dentry, NULL) instead.
* in the unlikely case when (read-only) access to filesystem
data structures needs exclusion for some reason, arrange it
yourself. None of the in-tree filesystems needed that.
* rely on ->d_parent and ->d_name not changing after dentry has
been fed to d_add() or d_splice_alias(). Again, none of the
in-tree instances relied upon that.
We are guaranteed that lookups of the same name in the same directory
will not happen in parallel ("same" in the sense of your ->d_compare()).
Lookups on different names in the same directory can and do happen in
parallel now.