locks: add special return value for asynchronous locks

Use a special error value FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED to mean that a locking
operation returned asynchronously.  This is returned by

  posix_lock_file() for sleeping locks to mean that the lock has been
  queued on the block list, and will be woken up when it might become
  available and needs to be retried (either fl_lmops->fl_notify() is
  called or fl_wait is woken up).

  f_op->lock() to mean either the above, or that the filesystem will
  call back with fl_lmops->fl_grant() when the result of the locking
  operation is known.  The filesystem can do this for sleeping as well
  as non-sleeping locks.

This is to make sure, that return values of -EAGAIN and -EINPROGRESS by
filesystems are not mistaken to mean an asynchronous locking.

This also makes error handling in fs/locks.c and lockd/svclock.c slightly
cleaner.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: David Teigland <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 4b86f806014c..49d8eb7a71be 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -886,6 +886,12 @@ static inline int file_check_writeable(struct file *filp)
 #define FL_SLEEP	128	/* A blocking lock */
 
 /*
+ * Special return value from posix_lock_file() and vfs_lock_file() for
+ * asynchronous locking.
+ */
+#define FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED 1
+
+/*
  * The POSIX file lock owner is determined by
  * the "struct files_struct" in the thread group
  * (or NULL for no owner - BSD locks).