file: reinstate f_pos locking optimization for regular files
In commit 20ea1e7d13c1 ("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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