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Commit e7b184f1 authored by J. Bruce Fields's avatar J. Bruce Fields
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nfsd4: document lease/grace-period limits 



The current documentation here is out of date, and not quite right.

(Future work: some user documentation would be useful.)

Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
parent efc4bb4f

fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c

+12 −3
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@@ -1208,9 +1208,6 @@ static ssize_t write_maxblksize(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t size) 
#ifdef CONFIG_NFSD_V4

#ifdef CONFIG_NFSD_V4

static ssize_t __nfsd4_write_time(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t size, time_t *time)

static ssize_t __nfsd4_write_time(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t size, time_t *time)

{

{

	/* if size > 10 seconds, call

	 * nfs4_reset_lease() then write out the new lease (seconds) as reply

	 */

	char *mesg = buf;

	char *mesg = buf;

	int rv, i;

	int rv, i;
@@ -1220,6 +1217,18 @@ static ssize_t __nfsd4_write_time(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t size, tim 
		rv = get_int(&mesg, &i);

		rv = get_int(&mesg, &i);

		if (rv)

		if (rv)

			return rv;

			return rv;

		/*

		 * Some sanity checking.  We don't have a reason for

		 * these particular numbers, but problems with the

		 * extremes are:

		 *	- Too short: the briefest network outage may

		 *	  cause clients to lose all their locks.  Also,

		 *	  the frequent polling may be wasteful.

		 *	- Too long: do you really want reboot recovery

		 *	  to take more than an hour?  Or to make other

		 *	  clients wait an hour before being able to

		 *	  revoke a dead client's locks?

		 */

		if (i < 10 || i > 3600)

		if (i < 10 || i > 3600)

			return -EINVAL;

			return -EINVAL;

		*time = i;

		*time = i;