locks: allow ->lock() to return FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED
authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:58 +0000 (01:48 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:53:48 +0000 (10:53 -0700)
commit764c76b371722e0cba5c24d91225f0f954b69d44
tree3f9bd533878f502b1235194b50a101a84a7c68be
parentb648a6de00770cc325c22f43bdd4e935f6a2ee55
locks: allow ->lock() to return FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED

Allow filesystem's ->lock() method to call posix_lock_file() instead of
posix_lock_file_wait(), and return FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED.  This makes it
possible to implement a such a ->lock() function, that works with the lock
manager, which needs the call to be asynchronous.

Now the vfs_lock_file() helper can be used, so this is a cleanup as well.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/locks.c