Re: More parallel atomic_open/d_splice_alias fun with NFS and possibly more FSes.

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 11:21:32AM -0400, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> > ...
> > -       if (d_unhashed(*de)) {
> > +       if (d_in_lookup(*de)) {
> >                 struct dentry *alias;
> >  
> >                 alias = ll_splice_alias(inode, *de);
> 
> This breaks Lustre because we now might progress further in this function
> without calling into ll_splice_alias and that's the only place that we do
> ll_d_init() that later code depends on so we violently crash next time
> we call e.g. d_lustre_revalidate() further down that code.

Huh?  How the hell do those conditions differ there?

> Also I still wonder what's to stop d_alloc_parallel() from returning
> a hashed dentry with d_in_lookup() still true?

The fact that such dentries do not exist at any point?

> Certainly there's a big gap between hashing the dentry and dropping the PAR
> bit in there that I imagine might allow __d_lookup_rcu() to pick it up
> in between?--

WTF?  Where do you see that gap?  in-lookup dentries get hashed only in one
place - __d_add().  And there (besides holding ->d_lock around both) we
drop that bit in flags *before* _d_rehash().  AFAICS, the situation with
barriers is OK there, due to lockref_get_not_dead() serving as ACQUIRE
operation; I could be missing something subtle, but a wide gap...  Where?