/*
* linux/fs/locks.c
*
* Provide support for fcntl()'s F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW calls.
* Doug Evans (dje@spiff.uucp), August 07, 1992
*
* Deadlock detection added.
* FIXME: one thing isn't handled yet:
* - mandatory locks (requires lots of changes elsewhere)
* Kelly Carmichael (kelly@[142.24.8.65]), September 17, 1994.
*
* Miscellaneous edits, and a total rewrite of posix_lock_file() code.
* Kai Petzke (wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de), 1994
*
* Converted file_lock_table to a linked list from an array, which eliminates
* the limits on how many active file locks are open.
* Chad Page (pageone@netcom.com), November 27, 1994
*
* Removed dependency on file descriptors. dup()'ed file descriptors now
* get the same locks as the original file descriptors, and a close() on
* any file descriptor removes ALL the locks on the file for the current
* process. Since locks still depend on the process id, locks are inherited
* after an exec() but not after a fork(). This agrees with POSIX, and both
* BSD and SVR4 practice.
* Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), February 14, 1995
*
* Scrapped free list which is redundant now that we allocate locks
* dynamically with kmalloc()/kfree().
* Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), February 21, 1995
*
* Implemented two lock personalities - FL_FLOCK and FL_POSIX.
*
* FL_POSIX locks are created with calls to fcntl() and lockf() through the
* fcntl() system call. They have the semantics described above.
*
* FL_FLOCK locks are created with calls to flock(), through the flock()
* system call, which is new. Old C libraries implement flock() via fcntl()
* and will continue to use the old, broken implementation.
*
* FL_FLOCK locks follow the 4.4 BSD flock() semantics. They are associated
* with a file pointer (filp). As a result they can be shared by a parent
* process and its children after a fork(). They are removed when the last
* file descriptor referring to the file pointer is closed (unless explicitly
* unlocked).
*
* FL_FLOCK locks never deadlock, an existing lock is always removed before
* upgrading from shared to exclusive (or vice versa). When this happens
* any processes blocked by the current lock are woken up and allowed to
* run before the new lock is applied.
* Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), June 09, 1995
*
* Removed some race conditions in flock_lock_file(), marked other possible
* races. Just grep for FIXME to see them.
* Dmitry Gorodchanin (pgmdsg@ibi.com), February 09, 1996.
*
* Addressed Dmitry's concerns. Deadlock checking no longer recursive.
* Lock allocation changed to GFP_ATOMIC as we can't afford to sleep
* once we've checked for blocking and deadlocking.
* Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), April 03, 1996.
*
* Initial implementation of mandatory locks. SunOS turned out to be
* a rotten model, so I implemented the "obvious" semantics.
* See 'Documentation/mandatory.txt' for details.
* Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), April 06, 1996.
*
* Don't allow mandatory locks on mmap()'ed files. Added simple functions to
* check if a file has mandatory locks, used by mmap(), open() and creat() to
* see if system call should be rejected. Ref. HP-UX/SunOS/Solaris Reference
* Manual, Section 2.
* Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), April 09, 1996.
*
* Tidied up block list handling. Added '/proc/locks' interface.
* Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), April 24, 1996.
*
* Fixed deadlock condition for pathological code that mixes calls to
* flock() and fcntl().
* Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), April 29, 1996.
*
* Allow only one type of locking scheme (FL_POSIX or FL_FLOCK) to be in use
* for a given file at a time. Changed the CONFIG_LOCK_MANDATORY scheme to
* guarantee sensible behaviour in the case where file system modules might
* be compiled with different options than the kernel itself.
* Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), May 15, 1996.
*
* Added a couple of missing wake_up() calls. Thanks to Thomas Meckel
* (Thomas.Meckel@mni.fh-giessen.de) for spotting this.
* Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), May 15, 1996.
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