K 10
svn:author
V 8
rmacklem
K 8
svn:date
V 27
2018-08-17T21:12:16.725863Z
K 7
svn:log
V 1066
Fix LORs between vn_start_write() and vn_lock() in the pNFS server.

When coding the pNFS server, I added several vn_start_write() calls done
while the vnode was locked, not realizing I had introduced LORs and
possible deadlock when an exported file system on the MDS is suspended.
This patch fixes this by removing the added vn_start_write() calls and
modifying the code so that the extant vn_start_write() call before the
NFS RPC/operation is done when needed by the pNFS server.
Flags are changed so that LayoutCommit and LayoutReturn now get a
vn_start_write() done for them.
When the pNFS server is enabled, the code now also changes the flags for
Getattr, so that the vn_start_write() is done for Getattr, since it may
need to do a vn_set_extattr(). The nfs_writerpc flag array was made global
to the NFS server and renamed nfsrv_writerpc, which is consistent naming
for globals in the NFS server.
Thanks go to kib@ for reporting that doing vn_start_write() while the vnode is
locked results in a LOR.
This patch only affects the behaviour of the pNFS server.

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