On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:41:12AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
Some of the latter paragraphs seem ambiguous and just plain wrong.
In particular the break_lease comment makes no sense. We call
break_lease (and break_deleg) from all sorts of vfs-layer functions,
so there is clearly such a method.
Also, we are close to being able to allow for "real" filesystem
setlease methods so remove the final comment about it not being a
full implementation yet.
I'd remove even more:
+ *
+ * This will call the filesystem's setlease file method, if defined. Note that
+ * there is no getlease method; instead, the filesystem setlease method should
+ * call back to generic_setlease() to add a lease to the inode's lease list,
+ * where fcntl_getlease() can find it. Since fcntl_getlease() only reports
+ * whether the current task holds a lease, a cluster filesystem need only do
+ * this for leases held by processes on this node.
*/
If we'd ever want a full implementation I think we'd absolutely need
the getlease method. But instead of hypothetizing about future
implementation I'd rather leave it to those actually implementing such
support, if that ever happens.