nfs41: Add backchannel processing support to RPC state machine

Adds rpc_run_bc_task() which is called by the NFS callback service to
process backchannel requests.  It performs similar work to rpc_run_task()
though "schedules" the backchannel task to be executed starting at the
call_trasmit state in the RPC state machine.

It also introduces some miscellaneous updates to the argument validation,
call_transmit, and transport cleanup functions to take into account
that there are now forechannel and backchannel tasks.

Backchannel requests do not carry an RPC message structure, since the
payload has already been XDR encoded using the existing NFSv4 callback
mechanism.

Introduce a new transmit state for the client to reply on to backchannel
requests.  This new state simply reserves the transport and issues the
reply.  In case of a connection related error, disconnects the transport and
drops the reply.  It requires the forechannel to re-establish the connection
and the server to retransmit the request, as stated in NFSv4.1 section
2.9.2 "Client and Server Transport Behavior".

Note: There is no need to loop attempting to reserve the transport.  If EAGAIN
is returned by xprt_prepare_transmit(), return with tk_status == 0,
setting tk_action to call_bc_transmit.  rpc_execute() will invoke it again
after the task is taken off the sleep queue.

[nfs41: rpc_run_bc_task() need not be exported outside RPC module]
[nfs41: New call_bc_transmit RPC state]
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[nfs41: Backchannel: No need to loop in call_bc_transmit()]
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[rpc_count_iostats incorrectly exits early]
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
[Convert rpc_reply_expected() to inline function]
[Remove unnecessary BUG_ON()]
[Rename variable]
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h
index 1773768..4010977 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h
@@ -210,6 +210,8 @@ struct rpc_wait_queue {
  */
 struct rpc_task *rpc_new_task(const struct rpc_task_setup *);
 struct rpc_task *rpc_run_task(const struct rpc_task_setup *);
+struct rpc_task *rpc_run_bc_task(struct rpc_rqst *req,
+				const struct rpc_call_ops *ops);
 void		rpc_put_task(struct rpc_task *);
 void		rpc_exit_task(struct rpc_task *);
 void		rpc_release_calldata(const struct rpc_call_ops *, void *);