o2dlm has the non-standard behavior of providing a cancel callback
(unlock_ast) even when the cancel has failed (the locking operation
succeeded without canceling). This is called CANCELGRANT after the
status code sent to the callback. fs/dlm does not provide this
callback, so dlmglue must be changed to live without it.
o2dlm_unlock_ast_wrapper() in stackglue now ignores CANCELGRANT calls.
Because dlmglue no longer sees CANCELGRANT, ocfs2_unlock_ast() no longer
needs to check for it. ocfs2_locking_ast() must catch that a cancel was
tried and clear the cancel state.
Making these changes opens up a locking race. dlmglue uses the the
OCFS2_LOCK_BUSY flag to ensure only one thread is calling the dlm at any
one time. But dlmglue must unlock the lockres before calling into the
dlm. In the small window of time between unlocking the lockres and
calling the dlm, the downconvert thread can try to cancel the lock. The
downconvert thread is checking the OCFS2_LOCK_BUSY flag - it doesn't
know that ocfs2_dlm_lock() has not yet been called.
Because ocfs2_dlm_lock() has not yet been called, the cancel operation
will just be a no-op. There's nothing to cancel. With CANCELGRANT,
dlmglue uses the CANCELGRANT callback to clear up the cancel state.
When it comes around again, it will retry the cancel. Eventually, the
first thread will have called into ocfs2_dlm_lock(), and either the
lock or the cancel will succeed. The downconvert thread can then do its
downconvert.
Without CANCELGRANT, there is nothing to clean up the cancellation
state. The downconvert thread does not know to retry its operations.
More importantly, the original lock may be blocking on the other node
that is trying to cancel us. With neither able to make progress, the
ast is never called and the cancellation state is never cleaned up that
way. dlmglue is deadlocked.
The OCFS2_LOCK_PENDING flag is introduced to remedy this window. It is
set at the same time OCFS2_LOCK_BUSY is. Thus, the downconvert thread
can check whether the lock is cancelable. If not, it just loops around
to try again. Once ocfs2_dlm_lock() is called, the thread then clears
OCFS2_LOCK_PENDING and wakes the downconvert thread. Now, if the
downconvert thread finds the lock BUSY, it can safely try to cancel it.
Whether the cancel works or not, the state will be properly set and the
lock processing can continue.
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
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