From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kinglong Mee Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] nfsd: Pin to vfsmnt instead of mntget Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 23:02:25 +0800 Message-ID: <555F4501.2090806@gmail.com> References: <554A149B.5060102@gmail.com> <554A154B.6040103@gmail.com> <20150508144031.6f0d3cda@notabene.brown> <20150508134744.GA23753@fieldses.org> <5550A9DF.1070908@gmail.com> <20150513142515.6bd881c8@notabene.brown> <20150515211134.GG29627@fieldses.org> <20150516092349.6718a946@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" , Al Viro , Trond Myklebust To: NeilBrown , "J. Bruce Fields" Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f48.google.com ([209.85.220.48]:34092 "EHLO mail-pa0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756674AbbEVPCj (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 May 2015 11:02:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150516092349.6718a946@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 5/16/2015 7:23 AM, NeilBrown wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 2015 17:11:34 -0400 "J. Bruce Fields" > wrote: > >> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 02:25:15PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: >>> On Mon, 11 May 2015 21:08:47 +0800 Kinglong Mee wrote: >>> >>>> On 5/8/2015 9:47 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: >>>>> It could also be useful to have the ability to force an unmount even in >>>>> the presence of locks. That's not a safe default, but an >>>>> "allow_force_unmount" export option might be useful. >>> >>> We already have a mechanism to forcibly drop any locks by writing some magic >>> to /proc/fs/nfsd/unlock_{ip,filesystem}. I don't think we need any more. >> >> Yeah, I remember thinking this sort of approach would have advantages, >> maybe I was wrong, I need to revisit it. >> >> The unlock_{ip,filesystem} approach requires temporarily shutting down >> mountd, doesn't it? > > Not necessarily. > It does require ensuring that new locks aren't suddenly taken though. > > I imagine an early step in the migration process is to "ifconfig down" the > virtual interface with the floating ID. Then you can safely "unlock" and > unmount any filesystems are that only accessed via the IP. > > But you are right that using the "unlock_*" interface and then unmounting is > racy in a way that we are trying to make "unmount" not racy. So maybe an > "allow_force_unmount" would have a place. No, unlock_{ip,filesystem} are used for nlmlock, doesn't support nfsv4 resources. Some other interfaces under /sys/kernel/debug/nfsd/forget_* support nfsv4 resources, without for an filesystem. It seems will be removed sometime. thanks, Kinglong Mee