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    nfsd: common grace period control · af558e33
    J. Bruce Fields authored
    
    
    Rewrite grace period code to unify management of grace period across
    lockd and nfsd.  The current code has lockd and nfsd cooperate to
    compute a grace period which is satisfactory to them both, and then
    individually enforce it.  This creates a slight race condition, since
    the enforcement is not coordinated.  It's also more complicated than
    necessary.
    
    Here instead we have lockd and nfsd each inform common code when they
    enter the grace period, and when they're ready to leave the grace
    period, and allow normal locking only after both of them are ready to
    leave.
    
    We also expect the locks_start_grace()/locks_end_grace() interface here
    to be simpler to build on for future cluster/high-availability work,
    which may require (for example) putting individual filesystems into
    grace, or enforcing grace periods across multiple cluster nodes.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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