mechanism so that early processing on mbufs can be performed before
a context switch to the NFS server threads. Because of this, if
the socket code is running without Giant, the NFS server also needs
to be able to run the upcall code without relying on the presence on
Giant. This change modifies the NFS server to run using a "giant
code lock" covering operation of the whole subsystem. Work is in
progress to move to data-based locking as part of the NFSv4 server
changes.
Introduce an NFS server subsystem lock, 'nfsd_mtx', and a set of
macros to operate on the lock:
NFSD_LOCK_ASSERT() Assert nfsd_mtx owned by current thread
NFSD_UNLOCK_ASSERT() Assert nfsd_mtx not owned by current thread
NFSD_LOCK_DONTCARE() Advisory: this function doesn't care
NFSD_LOCK() Lock nfsd_mtx
NFSD_UNLOCK() Unlock nfsd_mtx
Constify a number of global variables/structures in the NFS server
code, as they are not modified and contain constants only:
nfsrvv2_procid nfsrv_nfsv3_procid nonidempotent
nfsv2_repstat nfsv2_type nfsrv_nfsv3_procid
nfsrvv2_procid nfsrv_v2errmap nfsv3err_null
nfsv3err_getattr nfsv3err_setattr nfsv3err_lookup
nfsv3err_access nfsv3err_readlink nfsv3err_read
nfsv3err_write nfsv3err_create nfsv3err_mkdir
nfsv3err_symlink nfsv3err_mknod nfsv3err_remove
nfsv3err_rmdir nfsv3err_rename nfsv3err_link
nfsv3err_readdir nfsv3err_readdirplus nfsv3err_fsstat
nfsv3err_fsinfo nfsv3err_pathconf nfsv3err_commit
nfsrv_v3errmap
There are additional structures that should be constified but due
to their being passed into general purpose functions without const
arguments, I have not yet converted.
In general, acquire nfsd_mtx when accessing any of the global NFS
structures, including struct nfssvc_sock, struct nfsd, struct
nfsrv_descript.
Release nfsd_mtx whenever calling into VFS, and acquire Giant for
calls into VFS. Giant is not required for any part of the
operation of the NFS server with the exception of calls into VFS.
Giant will never by acquired in the upcall code path. However, it
may operate entirely covered by Giant, or not. If debug.mpsafenet
is set to 0, the system calls will acquire Giant across all
operations, and the upcall will assert Giant. As such, by default,
this enables locking and allows us to test assertions, but should not
cause any substantial new amount of code to be run without Giant.
Bugs should manifest in the form of lock assertion failures for now.
This approach is similar (but not identical) to modifications to the
BSD/OS NFS server code snapshot provided by BSDi as part of their
SMPng snapshot. The strategy is almost the same (single lock over
the NFS server), but differs in the following ways:
- Our NFS client and server code bases don't overlap, which means
both fewer bugs and easier locking (thanks Peter!). Also means
NFSD_*() as opposed to NFS_*().
- We make broad use of assertions, whereas the BSD/OS code does not.
- Made slightly different choices about how to handle macros building
packets but operating with side effects.
- We acquire Giant only when entering VFS from the NFS server daemon
threads.
- Serious bugs in BSD/OS implementation corrected -- the snapshot we
received was clearly a work in progress.
Based on ideas from: BSDi SMPng Snapshot
Reviewed by: rick@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca
Extensive testing by: kris
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