This patch adds a note to enable EXPORT_OP_ASYNC_LOCK for
asynchronous lock request handling.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <[email protected]>
---
fs/locks.c | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
index 76ad05f8070a..d4e49a990a8d 100644
--- a/fs/locks.c
+++ b/fs/locks.c
@@ -2264,11 +2264,13 @@ int fcntl_getlk(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, struct flock *flock)
* To avoid blocking kernel daemons, such as lockd, that need to acquire POSIX
* locks, the ->lock() interface may return asynchronously, before the lock has
* been granted or denied by the underlying filesystem, if (and only if)
- * lm_grant is set. Callers expecting ->lock() to return asynchronously
- * will only use F_SETLK, not F_SETLKW; they will set FL_SLEEP if (and only if)
- * the request is for a blocking lock. When ->lock() does return asynchronously,
- * it must return FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED, and call ->lm_grant() when the lock
- * request completes.
+ * lm_grant is set. Additionally EXPORT_OP_ASYNC_LOCK in export_operations
+ * flags need to be set.
+ *
+ * Callers expecting ->lock() to return asynchronously will only use F_SETLK,
+ * not F_SETLKW; they will set FL_SLEEP if (and only if) the request is for a
+ * blocking lock. When ->lock() does return asynchronously, it must return
+ * FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED, and call ->lm_grant() when the lock request completes.
* If the request is for non-blocking lock the file system should return
* FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED then try to get the lock and call the callback routine
* with the result. If the request timed out the callback routine will return a
--
2.31.1