[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] fix deadlock caused by recursive cluster locking

[Eric Ren]

This is a formal patch set v2 to solve the deadlock issue on which I
previously started a RFC (draft patch), and the discussion happened here:
[https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-devel/2016-October/012455.html]

Compared to the previous draft patch, this one is much simple and neat.
It neither messes up the dlmglue core, nor has a performance penalty on
the whole cluster locking system. Instead, it is only used in places where
such recursive cluster locking may happen.
 
Changes since v1: 
1. Let ocfs2_is_locked_by_me() just return true/false to indicate if the
process gets the cluster lock - suggested by: Joseph Qi <jiangqi903 at gmail.com>
and Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi at oracle.com>.
 
2. Change "struct ocfs2_holder" to a more meaningful name "ocfs2_lock_holder",
suggested by: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi at oracle.com>.
 
3. Add debugging output at ocfs2_setattr() and ocfs2_permission() to
catch exceptional cases, suggested by: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi at oracle.com>.
 
4. Do not inline functions whose bodies are not in scope, changed by:
Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au>.
 
Your comments and feedbacks are always welcomed.

Eric Ren (2):
  ocfs2/dlmglue: prepare tracking logic to avoid recursive cluster lock
  ocfs2: fix deadlock issue when taking inode lock at vfs entry points

 fs/ocfs2/acl.c     | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.h | 18 +++++++++++++
 fs/ocfs2/file.c    | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h   |  1 +
 5 files changed, 164 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

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