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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 01/17] locks: consolidate "nolease" routines
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On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 08:41:51 -0400
> Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com> wrote:
>> > GFS2 and NFS have setlease routines that always just return -EINVAL.
>> > Turn that into a generic routine that can live in fs/libfs.c.
>> >
>> > Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
>> > Cc: <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
>> > Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
>> > Cc: <cluster-devel@redhat.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com>
>> > ---
>> > fs/gfs2/file.c | 22 +---------------------
>> > fs/libfs.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>> > fs/nfs/file.c | 13 +------------
>> > fs/nfs/internal.h | 1 -
>> > fs/nfs/nfs4file.c | 2 +-
>> > include/linux/fs.h | 1 +
>> > 6 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
>>
>> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
>>
>
> Thanks. While spinning this up, I did have a momentary pause to wonder
> if -ENOLCK would be a better return value here.
>
> It would make it easier to distinguish this from from "oops, I passed
> in bogus arguments". For now, I'll leave it as -EINVAL, but it's
> something to consider...
>

Actually, it looks as if when you compile with !CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING,
then fcntl_setlease() returns the value '0' (which would be
"success!"). The word "confusing" only begins to describe it all.

Cheers
Trond


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