Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] nfsd: add a v4_end_grace file to /proc/fs/nfsd

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On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 02:38:27PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Allow a privileged userland process to end the v4 grace period early.
> Any write to the file will cause the v4 grace period to be lifted.
> The basic idea with this will be to allow the userland client tracking
> program to lift the grace period once it knows that no more clients
> will be reclaiming state.
...
> +/**
> + * write_v4_end_grace - release grace period for nfsd's v4.x lock manager
> + *
> + * Input:
> + *			buf:		ignored
> + *			size:		zero
> + * OR
> + *
> + * Input:
> + * 			buf:		any value
> + *			size:		non-zero length of C string in @buf
> + * Output:
> + *			passed-in buffer filled with "Y" or "N" with a newline
> + *			and NULL-terminated C string. This indicates whether
> + *			the grace period has ended in the current net
> + *			namespace. Return code is the size in bytes of the
> + *			string. Writing to the file will end the grace period
> + *			for nfsd's v4 lock manager.
> + */
> +static ssize_t write_v4_end_grace(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t size)
> +{
> +	struct net *net = file->f_dentry->d_sb->s_fs_info;
> +	struct nfsd_net *nn = net_generic(net, nfsd_net_id);
> +
> +	if (size > 0)
> +		nfsd4_end_grace(nn);

Ditto for this one.

Do we really need separate files for nlm and nfsd?

I think the separate nlm and nfsd grace periods may just be a historical
mistake.

--b.
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