file: reinstate f_pos locking optimization for regular files
In commit 20ea1e7d ("file: always lock position for FMODE_ATOMIC_POS") we ended up always taking the file pos lock, because pidfd_getfd() could get a reference to the file even when it didn't have an elevated file count due to threading of other sharing cases. But Mateusz Guzik reports that the extra locking is actually measurable, so let's re-introduce the optimization, and only force the locking for directory traversal. Directories need the lock for correctness reasons, while regular files only need it for "POSIX semantics". Since pidfd_getfd() is about debuggers etc special things that are _way_ outside of POSIX, we can relax the rules for that case. Reported-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20230803095311.ijpvhx3fyrbkasul@f/ Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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