Re: Let's get rid of those annoying "VFS is out of sync with lock manager" messages (includes proposed patch)

[Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>]

On Thursday December 7, jesper.juhl@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> So I took Neils patch, made the change Trond suggested and the result is 
> below.
> 
> Comments?  Ok to merge?  

Yes, except that you need a changelog comment at the top.  Possibly
based very heavily on the text I wrote, but written to justify the
patch rather than to explain the bug.

NeilBrown

> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
> ---
> 
>  fs/nfs/file.c |   11 +++++++----
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/file.c b/fs/nfs/file.c
> index cc93865..22572af 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/file.c
> @@ -428,8 +428,8 @@ static int do_vfs_lock(struct file *file
>  			BUG();
>  	}
>  	if (res < 0)
> -		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: VFS is out of sync with lock manager!\n",
> -				__FUNCTION__);
> +		dprintk("%s: VFS is out of sync with lock manager (res = %d)!\n",
> +				__FUNCTION__, res);
>  	return res;
>  }
>  
> @@ -479,10 +479,13 @@ static int do_setlk(struct file *filp, i
>  		 * we clean up any state on the server. We therefore
>  		 * record the lock call as having succeeded in order to
>  		 * ensure that locks_remove_posix() cleans it out when
> -		 * the process exits.
> +		 * the process exits. Make sure not to sleep if
> +		 * someone else holds the lock.
>  		 */
> -		if (status == -EINTR || status == -ERESTARTSYS)
> +		if (status == -EINTR || status == -ERESTARTSYS) {
> +			fl->fl_flags &= ~FL_SLEEP;
>  			do_vfs_lock(filp, fl);
> +		}
>  	} else
>  		status = do_vfs_lock(filp, fl);
>  	unlock_kernel();
> 
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