ocfs2_dlmfs: Use poll() to signify BASTs.

o2dlm's userspace filesystem is an easy way to use the DLM from userspace. It is intentionally simple. For example, it does not allow for asynchronous behavior or lock conversion. This is intentional to keep the interface simple.

Because there is no asynchronous notification, there is no way for a process holding a lock to know another node needs the lock. This is the number one complaint of ocfs2_dlmfs users. Turns out, we can solve this very easily. We add poll() support to ocfs2_dlmfs. When a BAST is received, the lock's file descriptor will receive POLLIN.

This is trivial to implement. Userdlm already has an appropriate waitqueue, and the lock knows when it is blocked.

---
 fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmfs.c |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

index 02bf178..aea0c40 100644
@@ -179,6 +179,22 @@ static int dlmfs_file_release(struct inode *inode,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static unsigned int dlmfs_file_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
+{
+	int event = 0;
+	struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
+	struct dlmfs_inode_private *ip = DLMFS_I(inode);
+
+	poll_wait(file, &ip->ip_lockres.l_event, wait);
+
+	spin_lock(&ip->ip_lockres.l_lock);
+	if (ip->ip_lockres.l_flags & USER_LOCK_BLOCKED)
+		event = POLLIN | POLLRDNORM;
+	spin_unlock(&ip->ip_lockres.l_lock);
+
+	return event;
+}
+
 static ssize_t dlmfs_file_read(struct file *filp,
 			       char __user *buf,
 			       size_t count,

@@ -549,6 +565,7 @@ static int dlmfs_fill_super(struct super_block * sb,
 static const struct file_operations dlmfs_file_operations = {
 	.open		= dlmfs_file_open,
 	.release	= dlmfs_file_release,
+	.poll		= dlmfs_file_poll,
 	.read		= dlmfs_file_read,
 	.write		= dlmfs_file_write,
 };

1.6.6


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Here's a test program to drive this with raw filesystem access.
Start a heartbeat on each node, then run the test program on each node. They should pass the lock around.

Joel

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Joel Becker
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