Re: two callback patches

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On 08/12/2011 01:48 PM, Jim Rees wrote:
> When you get a chance, could you pull these into pnfs-all-latest?  You'll
> find them on the head of my for-benny branch, and I assume upstream.
> 

Right and some other bug fixes as well. I find that all of trond/linux-next
branch are needed for proper run with v3.1-rc1 stuff. Best is if you can
merge in trond/linux-next at the client branch side if the pnfs tree.

Thanks
Boaz

> commit 3070296f2b3ddc094bda51286c3e9687d59d2a22
> Author: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Tue Aug 2 14:50:40 2011 -0400
> 
>     NFSv4.1: Return NFS4ERR_BADSESSION to callbacks during session resets
>     
>     If the client is in the process of resetting the session when it receives
>     a callback, then returning NFS4ERR_DELAY may cause a deadlock with the
>     DESTROY_SESSION call.
>     
>     Basically, if the client returns NFS4ERR_DELAY in response to the
>     CB_SEQUENCE call, then the server is entitled to believe that the
>     client is busy because it is already processing that call. In that
>     case, the server is perfectly entitled to respond with a
>     NFS4ERR_BACK_CHAN_BUSY to any DESTROY_SESSION call.
>     
>     Fix this by having the client reply with a NFS4ERR_BADSESSION in
>     response to the callback if it is resetting the session.
>     
>     Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx [2.6.38+]
>     Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit a8446678ba8b850bcac2286c6ed803c339049096
> Author: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Tue Aug 2 14:50:39 2011 -0400
> 
>     NFSv4.1: Fix the callback 'highest_used_slotid' behaviour
>     
>     Currently, there is no guarantee that we will call nfs4_cb_take_slot() even
>     though nfs4_callback_compound() will consistently call
>     nfs4_cb_free_slot() provided the cb_process_state has set the 'clp' field.
>     The result is that we can trigger the BUG_ON() upon the next call to
>     nfs4_cb_take_slot().
>     
>     This patch fixes the above problem by using the slot id that was taken in
>     the CB_SEQUENCE operation as a flag for whether or not we need to call
>     nfs4_cb_free_slot().
>     It also fixes an atomicity problem: we need to set tbl->highest_used_slotid
>     atomically with the check for NFS4_SESSION_DRAINING, otherwise we end up
>     racing with the various tests in nfs4_begin_drain_session().
>     
>     Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx [2.6.38+]
>     Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
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