Simplify afs_cell record handling to avoid very occasional races that cause
module removal to hang (it waits for all cell records to be removed).
There are two things that particularly contribute to the difficulty:
firstly, the code tries to pass a ref on the cell to the cell's maintenance
work item (which gets awkward if the work item is already queued); and,
secondly, there's an overall cell manager that tries to use just one timer
for the entire cell collection (to avoid having loads of timers). However,
both of these are probably unnecessarily restrictive.
To simplify this, the following changes are made:
(1) The cell record collection manager is removed. Each cell record
manages itself individually.
(2) Each afs_cell is given a second work item (cell->destroyer) that is
queued when its refcount reaches zero. This is not done in the
context of the putting thread as it might be in an inconvenient place
to sleep.
(3) Each afs_cell is given its own timer. The timer is used to expire the
cell record after a period of unuse if not otherwise pinned and can
also be used for other maintenance tasks if necessary (of which there
are currently none as DNS refresh is triggered by filesystem
operations).
(4) The afs_cell manager work item (cell->manager) is no longer given a
ref on the cell when queued; rather, the manager must be deleted.
This does away with the need to deal with the consequences of losing a
race to queue cell->manager. Clean up of extra queuing is deferred to
the destroyer.
(5) The cell destroyer work item makes sure the cell timer is removed and
that the normal cell work is cancelled before farming the actual
destruction off to RCU.
(6) When a network namespace is destroyed or the kafs module is unloaded,
it's now a simple matter of marking the namespace as dead then just
waking up all the cell work items. They will then remove and destroy
themselves once all remaining activity counts and/or a ref counts are
dropped. This makes sure that all server records are dropped first.
(7) The cell record state set is reduced to just four states: SETTING_UP,
ACTIVE, REMOVING and DEAD. The record persists in the active state
even when it's not being used until the time comes to remove it rather
than downgrading it to an inactive state from whence it can be
restored.
This means that the cell still appears in /proc and /afs when not in
use until it switches to the REMOVING state - at which point it is
removed.
Note that the REMOVING state is included so that someone wanting to
resurrect the cell record is forced to wait whilst the cell is torn
down in that state. Once it's in the DEAD state, it has been removed
from net->cells tree and is no longer findable and can be replaced.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224234154.2014840-16-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310094206.801057-12-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v4
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