autofs4: allow RCU-walk to walk through autofs4

This series teaches autofs about RCU-walk so that we don't drop straight
into REF-walk when we hit an autofs directory, and so that we avoid
spinlocks as much as possible when performing an RCU-walk.

This is needed so that the benefits of the recent NFS support for
RCU-walk are fully available when NFS filesystems are automounted.

Patches have been carefully reviewed and tested both with test suites
and in production - thanks a lot to Ian Kent for his support there.

This patch (of 6):

Any attempt to look up a pathname that passes though an autofs4 mount is
currently forced out of RCU-walk into REF-walk.

This can significantly hurt performance of many-thread work loads on
many-core systems, especially if the automounted filesystem supports
RCU-walk but doesn't get to benefit from it.

So if autofs4_d_manage is called with rcu_walk set, only fail with -ECHILD
if it is necessary to wait longer than a spinlock.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Tested-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/autofs4/expire.c b/fs/autofs4/expire.c
index 8fa3895cda02..1695eda8ac18 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/expire.c
+++ b/fs/autofs4/expire.c
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ found:
 	return expired;
 }
 
-int autofs4_expire_wait(struct dentry *dentry)
+int autofs4_expire_wait(struct dentry *dentry, int rcu_walk)
 {
 	struct autofs_sb_info *sbi = autofs4_sbi(dentry->d_sb);
 	struct autofs_info *ino = autofs4_dentry_ino(dentry);
@@ -471,6 +471,8 @@ int autofs4_expire_wait(struct dentry *dentry)
 	spin_lock(&sbi->fs_lock);
 	if (ino->flags & AUTOFS_INF_EXPIRING) {
 		spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
+		if (rcu_walk)
+			return -ECHILD;
 
 		DPRINTK("waiting for expire %p name=%.*s",
 			 dentry, dentry->d_name.len, dentry->d_name.name);