#define DISP_OPEN_LEASE 0x04000000
/* INODE LOCK PARTS */
-#define MDS_INODELOCK_LOOKUP 0x000001 /* dentry, mode, owner, group */
-#define MDS_INODELOCK_UPDATE 0x000002 /* size, links, timestamps */
-#define MDS_INODELOCK_OPEN 0x000004 /* For opened files */
-#define MDS_INODELOCK_LAYOUT 0x000008 /* for layout */
-#define MDS_INODELOCK_PERM 0x000010 /* for permission */
-#define MDS_INODELOCK_XATTR 0x000020 /* extended attributes */
+#define MDS_INODELOCK_LOOKUP 0x000001 /* For namespace, dentry etc, and also
+ * was used to protect permission (mode,
+ * owner, group etc) before 2.4. */
+#define MDS_INODELOCK_UPDATE 0x000002 /* size, links, timestamps */
+#define MDS_INODELOCK_OPEN 0x000004 /* For opened files */
+#define MDS_INODELOCK_LAYOUT 0x000008 /* for layout */
+
+/* The PERM bit is added int 2.4, and it is used to protect permission(mode,
+ * owner, group, acl etc), so to separate the permission from LOOKUP lock.
+ * Because for remote directories(in DNE), these locks will be granted by
+ * different MDTs(different ldlm namespace).
+ *
+ * For local directory, MDT will always grant UPDATE_LOCK|PERM_LOCK together.
+ * For Remote directory, the master MDT, where the remote directory is, will
+ * grant UPDATE_LOCK|PERM_LOCK, and the remote MDT, where the name entry is,
+ * will grant LOOKUP_LOCK. */
+#define MDS_INODELOCK_PERM 0x000010
+#define MDS_INODELOCK_XATTR 0x000020 /* extended attributes */
#define MDS_INODELOCK_MAXSHIFT 5
/* This FULL lock is useful to take on unlink sort of operations */
* locks, there's no easy way to match all of them here,
* so an extra RPC would be performed to fetch all
* of those bits at once for now. */
+ /* For new MDTs(> 2.4), UPDATE|PERM should be enough,
+ * but for old MDTs (< 2.4), permission is covered
+ * by LOOKUP lock, so it needs to match all bits here.*/
policy.l_inodebits.bits = MDS_INODELOCK_UPDATE |
MDS_INODELOCK_LOOKUP |
MDS_INODELOCK_PERM;