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Description of problem:
For a number of file systems that don't have a mount point (e.g. sockfs
and pipefs), they are not marked as long term. Therefore in
mntput_no_expire, all locks in vfs_mount lock are taken instead of just
local cpu's lock to aggregate reference counts when we release
reference to file objects. In fact, only local lock need to have been
taken to update ref counts as these file systems are in no danger of
going away until we are ready to unregister them.
The attached patch marks file systems using kern_mount without
mount point as long term. The contentions of vfs_mount lock
is now eliminated. Before un-registering such file system,
kern_unmount should be called to remove the long term flag and
make the mount point ready to be freed.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible:
Always
Steps to Reproduce:
See https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/16/122
Actual results:
Heavy contention on vfsmount_lock for sockfs and pipefs
Expected results:
Low contention on vfsmount_lock
Additional info:
Problem fixed in mainline commit 423e0ab086ad8b33626e45fa94ac7613146b7ffa