If userspace thread has held f2fs rw semaphore, due to its low priority,
it could be runnable or preempted state for long time, during the time,
it will block high priority thread which is trying to grab the same rw
semaphore, e.g. cp_rwsem, io_rwsem...
To fix such issue, let's detect thread's priority when it tries to grab
f2fs_rwsem lock, if the priority is lower than a priority threshold, let's
uplift the priority before it enters into critical region of lock, and
restore the priority after it leaves from critical region.
Meanwhile, introducing two new sysfs nodes:
- /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/adjust_lock_priority, it is used to control whether
the functionality is enable or not.
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Flag_Value Flag_Description
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0x00000000 Disabled (default)
0x00000001 cp_rwsem
0x00000002 node_change
0x00000004 node_write
0x00000008 gc_lock
0x00000010 cp_global
0x00000020 io_rwsem
========== ==================
- /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/lock_duration_priority, it is used to control
priority threshold.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>