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<title>gfs2: Force withdraw to replay journals and wait for it to finish</title>
<updated>2020-02-27T13:53:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bob Peterson</name>
<email>rpeterso@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-28T19:23:45+00:00</published>
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When a node withdraws from a file system, it often leaves its journal
in an incomplete state. This is especially true when the withdraw is
caused by io errors writing to the journal. Before this patch, a
withdraw would try to write a "shutdown" record to the journal, tell
dlm it's done with the file system, and none of the other nodes
know about the problem. Later, when the problem is fixed and the
withdrawn node is rebooted, it would then discover that its own
journal was incomplete, and replay it. However, replaying it at this
point is almost guaranteed to introduce corruption because the other
nodes are likely to have used affected resource groups that appeared
in the journal since the time of the withdraw. Replaying the journal
later will overwrite any changes made, and not through any fault of
dlm, which was instructed during the withdraw to release those
resources.

This patch makes file system withdraws seen by the entire cluster.
Withdrawing nodes dequeue their journal glock to allow recovery.

The remaining nodes check all the journals to see if they are
clean or in need of replay. They try to replay dirty journals, but
only the journals of withdrawn nodes will be "not busy" and
therefore available for replay.

Until the journal replay is complete, no i/o related glocks may be
given out, to ensure that the replay does not cause the
aforementioned corruption: We cannot allow any journal replay to
overwrite blocks associated with a glock once it is held.

The "live" glock which is now used to signal when a withdraw
occurs. When a withdraw occurs, the node signals its withdraw by
dequeueing the "live" glock and trying to enqueue it in EX mode,
thus forcing the other nodes to all see a demote request, by way
of a "1CB" (one callback) try lock. The "live" glock is not
granted in EX; the callback is only just used to indicate a
withdraw has occurred.

Note that all nodes in the cluster must wait for the recovering
node to finish replaying the withdrawing node's journal before
continuing. To this end, it checks that the journals are clean
multiple times in a retry loop.

Also note that the withdraw function may be called from a wide
variety of situations, and therefore, we need to take extra
precautions to make sure pointers are valid before using them in
many circumstances.

We also need to take care when glocks decide to withdraw, since
the withdraw code now uses glocks.

Also, before this patch, if a process encountered an error and
decided to withdraw, if another process was already withdrawing,
the second withdraw would be silently ignored, which set it free
to unlock its glocks. That's correct behavior if the original
withdrawer encounters further errors down the road. But if
secondary waiters don't wait for the journal replay, unlocking
glocks will allow other nodes to use them, despite the fact that
the journal containing those blocks is being replayed. The
replay needs to finish before our glocks are released to other
nodes. IOW, secondary withdraws need to wait for the first
withdraw to finish.

For example, if an rgrp glock is unlocked by a process that didn't
wait for the first withdraw, a journal replay could introduce file
system corruption by replaying a rgrp block that has already been
granted to a different cluster node.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
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When a node withdraws from a file system, it often leaves its journal
in an incomplete state. This is especially true when the withdraw is
caused by io errors writing to the journal. Before this patch, a
withdraw would try to write a "shutdown" record to the journal, tell
dlm it's done with the file system, and none of the other nodes
know about the problem. Later, when the problem is fixed and the
withdrawn node is rebooted, it would then discover that its own
journal was incomplete, and replay it. However, replaying it at this
point is almost guaranteed to introduce corruption because the other
nodes are likely to have used affected resource groups that appeared
in the journal since the time of the withdraw. Replaying the journal
later will overwrite any changes made, and not through any fault of
dlm, which was instructed during the withdraw to release those
resources.

This patch makes file system withdraws seen by the entire cluster.
Withdrawing nodes dequeue their journal glock to allow recovery.

The remaining nodes check all the journals to see if they are
clean or in need of replay. They try to replay dirty journals, but
only the journals of withdrawn nodes will be "not busy" and
therefore available for replay.

Until the journal replay is complete, no i/o related glocks may be
given out, to ensure that the replay does not cause the
aforementioned corruption: We cannot allow any journal replay to
overwrite blocks associated with a glock once it is held.

The "live" glock which is now used to signal when a withdraw
occurs. When a withdraw occurs, the node signals its withdraw by
dequeueing the "live" glock and trying to enqueue it in EX mode,
thus forcing the other nodes to all see a demote request, by way
of a "1CB" (one callback) try lock. The "live" glock is not
granted in EX; the callback is only just used to indicate a
withdraw has occurred.

Note that all nodes in the cluster must wait for the recovering
node to finish replaying the withdrawing node's journal before
continuing. To this end, it checks that the journals are clean
multiple times in a retry loop.

Also note that the withdraw function may be called from a wide
variety of situations, and therefore, we need to take extra
precautions to make sure pointers are valid before using them in
many circumstances.

We also need to take care when glocks decide to withdraw, since
the withdraw code now uses glocks.

Also, before this patch, if a process encountered an error and
decided to withdraw, if another process was already withdrawing,
the second withdraw would be silently ignored, which set it free
to unlock its glocks. That's correct behavior if the original
withdrawer encounters further errors down the road. But if
secondary waiters don't wait for the journal replay, unlocking
glocks will allow other nodes to use them, despite the fact that
the journal containing those blocks is being replayed. The
replay needs to finish before our glocks are released to other
nodes. IOW, secondary withdraws need to wait for the first
withdraw to finish.

For example, if an rgrp glock is unlocked by a process that didn't
wait for the first withdraw, a journal replay could introduce file
system corruption by replaying a rgrp block that has already been
granted to a different cluster node.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>gfs2: Split gfs2_lm_withdraw into two functions</title>
<updated>2020-02-10T13:39:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Gruenbacher</name>
<email>agruenba@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-23T17:41:00+00:00</published>
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Split gfs2_lm_withdraw into a function that prints an error message and a
function that withdraws the filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
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Split gfs2_lm_withdraw into a function that prints an error message and a
function that withdraws the filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>gfs2: Introduce function gfs2_withdrawn</title>
<updated>2019-11-14T18:46:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bob Peterson</name>
<email>rpeterso@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-14T14:52:15+00:00</published>
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Add function gfs2_withdrawn and replace all checks for the SDF_WITHDRAWN
bit to call it. This does not change the logic or function of gfs2, and
it facilitates later improvements to the withdraw sequence.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
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Add function gfs2_withdrawn and replace all checks for the SDF_WITHDRAWN
bit to call it. This does not change the logic or function of gfs2, and
it facilitates later improvements to the withdraw sequence.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-5.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2019-07-12T19:24:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-12T19:24:03+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core and debugfs updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" driver core and debugfs changes for 5.3-rc1

  It's a lot of different patches, all across the tree due to some api
  changes and lots of debugfs cleanups.

  Other than the debugfs cleanups, in this set of changes we have:

   - bus iteration function cleanups

   - scripts/get_abi.pl tool to display and parse Documentation/ABI
     entries in a simple way

   - cleanups to Documenatation/ABI/ entries to make them parse easier
     due to typos and other minor things

   - default_attrs use for some ktype users

   - driver model documentation file conversions to .rst

   - compressed firmware file loading

   - deferred probe fixes

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while, with a bunch of
  merge issues that Stephen has been patient with me for"

* tag 'driver-core-5.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (102 commits)
  debugfs: make error message a bit more verbose
  orangefs: fix build warning from debugfs cleanup patch
  ubifs: fix build warning after debugfs cleanup patch
  driver: core: Allow subsystems to continue deferring probe
  drivers: base: cacheinfo: Ensure cpu hotplug work is done before Intel RDT
  arch_topology: Remove error messages on out-of-memory conditions
  lib: notifier-error-inject: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  swiotlb: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  ceph: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  sunrpc: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  ubifs: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  orangefs: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  nfsd: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  lib: 842: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  debugfs: provide pr_fmt() macro
  debugfs: log errors when something goes wrong
  drivers: s390/cio: Fix compilation warning about const qualifiers
  drivers: Add generic helper to match by of_node
  driver_find_device: Unify the match function with class_find_device()
  bus_find_device: Unify the match callback with class_find_device
  ...
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Pull driver core and debugfs updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" driver core and debugfs changes for 5.3-rc1

  It's a lot of different patches, all across the tree due to some api
  changes and lots of debugfs cleanups.

  Other than the debugfs cleanups, in this set of changes we have:

   - bus iteration function cleanups

   - scripts/get_abi.pl tool to display and parse Documentation/ABI
     entries in a simple way

   - cleanups to Documenatation/ABI/ entries to make them parse easier
     due to typos and other minor things

   - default_attrs use for some ktype users

   - driver model documentation file conversions to .rst

   - compressed firmware file loading

   - deferred probe fixes

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while, with a bunch of
  merge issues that Stephen has been patient with me for"

* tag 'driver-core-5.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (102 commits)
  debugfs: make error message a bit more verbose
  orangefs: fix build warning from debugfs cleanup patch
  ubifs: fix build warning after debugfs cleanup patch
  driver: core: Allow subsystems to continue deferring probe
  drivers: base: cacheinfo: Ensure cpu hotplug work is done before Intel RDT
  arch_topology: Remove error messages on out-of-memory conditions
  lib: notifier-error-inject: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  swiotlb: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  ceph: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  sunrpc: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  ubifs: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  orangefs: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  nfsd: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  lib: 842: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  debugfs: provide pr_fmt() macro
  debugfs: log errors when something goes wrong
  drivers: s390/cio: Fix compilation warning about const qualifiers
  drivers: Add generic helper to match by of_node
  driver_find_device: Unify the match function with class_find_device()
  bus_find_device: Unify the match callback with class_find_device
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>gfs2: Rename SDF_SHUTDOWN to SDF_WITHDRAWN</title>
<updated>2019-06-27T19:26:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bob Peterson</name>
<email>rpeterso@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-07T18:27:44+00:00</published>
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Before this patch, the superblock flag indicating when a file system
is withdrawn was called SDF_SHUTDOWN. This patch simply renames it to
the more obvious SDF_WITHDRAWN.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
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Before this patch, the superblock flag indicating when a file system
is withdrawn was called SDF_SHUTDOWN. This patch simply renames it to
the more obvious SDF_WITHDRAWN.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>gfs2: Clean up freeing struct gfs2_sbd</title>
<updated>2019-06-27T18:53:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Gruenbacher</name>
<email>agruenba@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-16T21:46:30+00:00</published>
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Add a free_sbd function for freeing a struct gfs2_sbd.  Use that for
freeing a super-block descriptor, either directly or via kobject_put.
Free sd_lkstats inside the kobject release function: that way,
gfs2_put_super will no longer leak sd_lkstats.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
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Add a free_sbd function for freeing a struct gfs2_sbd.  Use that for
freeing a super-block descriptor, either directly or via kobject_put.
Free sd_lkstats inside the kobject release function: that way,
gfs2_put_super will no longer leak sd_lkstats.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>gfs2: replace ktype default_attrs with default_groups</title>
<updated>2019-06-13T11:50:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kimberly Brown</name>
<email>kimbrownkd@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-07T18:23:00+00:00</published>
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The kobj_type default_attrs field is being replaced by the
default_groups field. Replace the default_attrs field in gfs2_ktype
with default_groups. Use the ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS macro to create
gfs2_groups.

Signed-off-by: Kimberly Brown &lt;kimbrownkd@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The kobj_type default_attrs field is being replaced by the
default_groups field. Replace the default_attrs field in gfs2_ktype
with default_groups. Use the ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS macro to create
gfs2_groups.

Signed-off-by: Kimberly Brown &lt;kimbrownkd@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 398</title>
<updated>2019-06-05T15:37:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-31T08:09:56+00:00</published>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use
  modify copy or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions
  of the gnu general public license version 2

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 44 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190531081038.653000175@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use
  modify copy or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions
  of the gnu general public license version 2

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 44 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190531081038.653000175@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>gfs2: Fix error path kobject memory leak</title>
<updated>2019-05-13T22:43:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tobin C. Harding</name>
<email>tobin@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-13T19:59:04+00:00</published>
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If a call to kobject_init_and_add() fails we must call kobject_put()
otherwise we leak memory.

Function gfs2_sys_fs_add always calls kobject_init_and_add() which
always calls kobject_init().

It is safe to leave object destruction up to the kobject release
function and never free it manually.

Remove call to kfree() and always call kobject_put() in the error path.

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding &lt;tobin@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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If a call to kobject_init_and_add() fails we must call kobject_put()
otherwise we leak memory.

Function gfs2_sys_fs_add always calls kobject_init_and_add() which
always calls kobject_init().

It is safe to leave object destruction up to the kobject release
function and never free it manually.

Remove call to kfree() and always call kobject_put() in the error path.

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding &lt;tobin@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>GFS2: Fix recovery issues for spectators</title>
<updated>2018-07-24T22:06:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bob Peterson</name>
<email>rpeterso@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-05T19:40:46+00:00</published>
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This patch fixes a couple problems dealing with spectators who
remain with gfs2 mounts after the last non-spectator node fails.

Before this patch, spectator mounts would try to acquire the dlm's
mounted lock EX as part of its normal recovery sequence.
The mounted lock is only used to determine whether the node is
the first mounter, the first node to mount the file system, for
the purposes of file system recovery and journal replay.

It's not necessary for spectators: they should never do journal
recovery. If they acquire the lock it will prevent another "real"
first-mounter from acquiring the lock in EX mode, which means it
also cannot do journal recovery because it doesn't think it's the
first node to mount the file system.

This patch checks if the mounter is a spectator, and if so, avoids
grabbing the mounted lock. This allows a secondary mounter who is
really the first non-spectator mounter, to do journal recovery:
since the spectator doesn't acquire the lock, it can grab it in
EX mode, and therefore consider itself to be the first mounter
both as a "real" first mount, and as a first-real-after-spectator.

Note that the control lock still needs to be taken in PR mode
in order to fetch the lvb value so it has the current status of
all journal's recovery. This is used as it is today by a first
mounter to replay the journals. For spectators, it's merely
used to fetch the status bits. All recovery is bypassed and the
node waits until recovery is completed by a non-spectator node.

I also improved the cryptic message given by control_mount when
a spectator is waiting for a non-spectator to perform recovery.

It also fixes a problem in gfs2_recover_set whereby spectators
were never queueing recovery work for their own journal.
They cannot do recovery themselves, but they still need to queue
the work so they can check the recovery bits and clear the
DFL_BLOCK_LOCKS bit once the recovery happens on another node.

When the work queue runs on a spectator, it bypasses most of the
work so it won't print a bunch of annoying messages. All it will
print is a bunch of messages that look like this until recovery
completes on the non-spectator node:

GFS2: fsid=mycluster:scratch.s: recover generation 3 jid 0
GFS2: fsid=mycluster:scratch.s: recover jid 0 result busy

These continue every 1.5 seconds until the recovery is done by
the non-spectator, at which time it says:

GFS2: fsid=mycluster:scratch.s: recover generation 4 done

Then it proceeds with its mount.

If the file system is mounted in spectator node and the last
remaining non-spectator is fenced, any IO to the file system is
blocked by dlm and the spectator waits until recovery is
performed by a non-spectator.

If a spectator tries to mount the file system before any
non-spectators, it blocks and repeatedly gives this kernel
message:

GFS2: fsid=mycluster:scratch: Recovery is required. Waiting for a non-spectator to mount.
GFS2: fsid=mycluster:scratch: Recovery is required. Waiting for a non-spectator to mount.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
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This patch fixes a couple problems dealing with spectators who
remain with gfs2 mounts after the last non-spectator node fails.

Before this patch, spectator mounts would try to acquire the dlm's
mounted lock EX as part of its normal recovery sequence.
The mounted lock is only used to determine whether the node is
the first mounter, the first node to mount the file system, for
the purposes of file system recovery and journal replay.

It's not necessary for spectators: they should never do journal
recovery. If they acquire the lock it will prevent another "real"
first-mounter from acquiring the lock in EX mode, which means it
also cannot do journal recovery because it doesn't think it's the
first node to mount the file system.

This patch checks if the mounter is a spectator, and if so, avoids
grabbing the mounted lock. This allows a secondary mounter who is
really the first non-spectator mounter, to do journal recovery:
since the spectator doesn't acquire the lock, it can grab it in
EX mode, and therefore consider itself to be the first mounter
both as a "real" first mount, and as a first-real-after-spectator.

Note that the control lock still needs to be taken in PR mode
in order to fetch the lvb value so it has the current status of
all journal's recovery. This is used as it is today by a first
mounter to replay the journals. For spectators, it's merely
used to fetch the status bits. All recovery is bypassed and the
node waits until recovery is completed by a non-spectator node.

I also improved the cryptic message given by control_mount when
a spectator is waiting for a non-spectator to perform recovery.

It also fixes a problem in gfs2_recover_set whereby spectators
were never queueing recovery work for their own journal.
They cannot do recovery themselves, but they still need to queue
the work so they can check the recovery bits and clear the
DFL_BLOCK_LOCKS bit once the recovery happens on another node.

When the work queue runs on a spectator, it bypasses most of the
work so it won't print a bunch of annoying messages. All it will
print is a bunch of messages that look like this until recovery
completes on the non-spectator node:

GFS2: fsid=mycluster:scratch.s: recover generation 3 jid 0
GFS2: fsid=mycluster:scratch.s: recover jid 0 result busy

These continue every 1.5 seconds until the recovery is done by
the non-spectator, at which time it says:

GFS2: fsid=mycluster:scratch.s: recover generation 4 done

Then it proceeds with its mount.

If the file system is mounted in spectator node and the last
remaining non-spectator is fenced, any IO to the file system is
blocked by dlm and the spectator waits until recovery is
performed by a non-spectator.

If a spectator tries to mount the file system before any
non-spectators, it blocks and repeatedly gives this kernel
message:

GFS2: fsid=mycluster:scratch: Recovery is required. Waiting for a non-spectator to mount.
GFS2: fsid=mycluster:scratch: Recovery is required. Waiting for a non-spectator to mount.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
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