This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
NFSD: Flesh out a documenting comment for filecache.c
to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
nfsd-flesh-out-a-documenting-comment-for-filecache.c.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 495d84c3a8bacb416bbb03fe4cad0a4143497470
Author: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Nov 1 13:30:46 2022 -0400
NFSD: Flesh out a documenting comment for filecache.c
[ Upstream commit b3276c1f5b268ff56622e9e125b792b4c3dc03ac ]
Record what we've learned recently about the NFSD filecache in a
documenting comment so our future selves don't forget what all this
is for.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c
index 13a25503b80e1..d681faf48cf85 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c
@@ -2,6 +2,30 @@
* Open file cache.
*
* (c) 2015 - Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+ *
+ * An nfsd_file object is a per-file collection of open state that binds
+ * together:
+ * - a struct file *
+ * - a user credential
+ * - a network namespace
+ * - a read-ahead context
+ * - monitoring for writeback errors
+ *
+ * nfsd_file objects are reference-counted. Consumers acquire a new
+ * object via the nfsd_file_acquire API. They manage their interest in
+ * the acquired object, and hence the object's reference count, via
+ * nfsd_file_get and nfsd_file_put. There are two varieties of nfsd_file
+ * object:
+ *
+ * * non-garbage-collected: When a consumer wants to precisely control
+ * the lifetime of a file's open state, it acquires a non-garbage-
+ * collected nfsd_file. The final nfsd_file_put releases the open
+ * state immediately.
+ *
+ * * garbage-collected: When a consumer does not control the lifetime
+ * of open state, it acquires a garbage-collected nfsd_file. The
+ * final nfsd_file_put allows the open state to linger for a period
+ * during which it may be re-used.
*/
#include <linux/hash.h>
