[PATCH 4/6] autofs4: avoid taking fs_lock during rcu-walk

[NeilBrown]

->fs_lock protects AUTOFS_INF_EXPIRING.  We need to be sure
that once the flag is set, no new references beneath the dentry
are taken.  So rcu-walk currently needs to take fs_lock before
checking the flag.  This hurts performance.

Change the expiry to a two-stage process.
First set AUTOFS_INF_NO_RCU which forces any path walk into
ref-walk mode, then drop the lock and call synchronize_rcu().
Once that returns we can be sure no rcu-walk is active beneath
the dentry and we can check reference counts again.

Now during an RCU-walk we can test AUTOFS_INF_EXPIRING without
taking the lock as along as we test AUTOFS_INF_NO_RCU too.
If either are set, we must abort the RCU-walk
If neither are set, we know that refcounts will be tested again
after we finish the RCU-walk so we are safe to continue.

->fs_lock is still taken in d_manage() to check for a non-trap
directory.  That will be resolved in the next patch.

Reviewed-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
---
 fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h |    4 ++++
 fs/autofs4/expire.c   |   46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h b/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h
index 2f1032f12d91..8e98cf954bab 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h
+++ b/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h
@@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ struct autofs_info {
 };
 
 #define AUTOFS_INF_EXPIRING	(1<<0) /* dentry is in the process of expiring */
+#define AUTOFS_INF_NO_RCU	(1<<1) /* the dentry is being considered
+					* for expiry, so RCU_walk is
+					* not permitted
+					*/
 #define AUTOFS_INF_PENDING	(1<<2) /* dentry pending mount */
 
 struct autofs_wait_queue {
diff --git a/fs/autofs4/expire.c b/fs/autofs4/expire.c
index af09dada91bc..4d52272952ec 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/expire.c
+++ b/fs/autofs4/expire.c
@@ -327,10 +327,19 @@ struct dentry *autofs4_expire_direct(struct super_block *sb,
 	if (ino->flags & AUTOFS_INF_PENDING)
 		goto out;
 	if (!autofs4_direct_busy(mnt, root, timeout, do_now)) {
-		ino->flags |= AUTOFS_INF_EXPIRING;
-		init_completion(&ino->expire_complete);
+		ino->flags |= AUTOFS_INF_NO_RCU;
 		spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
-		return root;
+		synchronize_rcu();
+		spin_lock(&sbi->fs_lock);
+		if (!autofs4_direct_busy(mnt, root, timeout, do_now)) {
+			ino->flags |= AUTOFS_INF_EXPIRING;
+			smp_mb();
+			ino->flags &= ~AUTOFS_INF_NO_RCU;
+			init_completion(&ino->expire_complete);
+			spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
+			return root;
+		}
+		ino->flags &= ~AUTOFS_INF_NO_RCU;
 	}
 out:
 	spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
@@ -448,12 +457,29 @@ struct dentry *autofs4_expire_indirect(struct super_block *sb,
 	dentry = NULL;
 	while ((dentry = get_next_positive_subdir(dentry, root))) {
 		spin_lock(&sbi->fs_lock);
-		expired = should_expire(dentry, mnt, timeout, how);
-		if (expired) {
+		ino = autofs4_dentry_ino(dentry);
+		if (ino->flags & AUTOFS_INF_NO_RCU)
+			expired = NULL;
+		else
+			expired = should_expire(dentry, mnt, timeout, how);
+		if (!expired) {
+			spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
+			continue;
+		}
+		ino = autofs4_dentry_ino(expired);
+		ino->flags |= AUTOFS_INF_NO_RCU;
+		spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
+		synchronize_rcu();
+		spin_lock(&sbi->fs_lock);
+		if (should_expire(expired, mnt, timeout, how)) {
 			if (expired != dentry)
 				dput(dentry);
 			goto found;
 		}
+
+		ino->flags &= ~AUTOFS_INF_NO_RCU;
+		if (expired != dentry)
+			dput(expired);
 		spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
 	}
 	return NULL;
@@ -461,8 +487,9 @@ struct dentry *autofs4_expire_indirect(struct super_block *sb,
 found:
 	DPRINTK("returning %p %.*s",
 		expired, (int)expired->d_name.len, expired->d_name.name);
-	ino = autofs4_dentry_ino(expired);
 	ino->flags |= AUTOFS_INF_EXPIRING;
+	smp_mb();
+	ino->flags &= ~AUTOFS_INF_NO_RCU;
 	init_completion(&ino->expire_complete);
 	spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
 	spin_lock(&sbi->lookup_lock);
@@ -482,11 +509,14 @@ int autofs4_expire_wait(struct dentry *dentry, int rcu_walk)
 	int status;
 
 	/* Block on any pending expire */
+	if (!(ino->flags & (AUTOFS_INF_EXPIRING | AUTOFS_INF_NO_RCU)))
+		return 0;
+	if (rcu_walk)
+		return -ECHILD;
+
 	spin_lock(&sbi->fs_lock);
 	if (ino->flags & AUTOFS_INF_EXPIRING) {
 		spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
-		if (rcu_walk)
-			return -ECHILD;
 
 		DPRINTK("waiting for expire %p name=%.*s",
 			 dentry, dentry->d_name.len, dentry->d_name.name);


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