cifs: Identify a connection by a conn_id.
Introduced a new field conn_id in TCP_Server_Info structure. This is a non-persistent unique identifier maintained by the client for a connection to a file server. For this, a global counter named tcpSesNextId is maintained. On allocating a new TCP_Server_Info, this counter is incremented and assigned. Changed the dynamic tracepoints related to reconnects and crediting to be more informative (with conn_id printed). Debugging a crediting issue helped me understand the important things to print here. Always call dynamic tracepoints outside the scope of spinlocks. To do this, copy out the credits and in_flight fields of the server struct before dropping the lock. Signed-off-by: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
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