Since 3.0, it is possible to assign a GUID to proxies, listeners and
servers. These objects are stored in a global tree guid_tree.
Proxies and listeners are static. However, servers may be added or
deleted at runtime, which imply that guid_tree must be protected. Fix
this by declaring a read-write lock to protect tree access.
For now, only guid_insert() and guid_remove() are protected using a
write lock. Outside of these, GUID tree is not accessed at runtime. If
server CLI commands are extended to support GUID as server identifier,
lookup operation should be extended with a read lock protection.
Note that during stat-file preloading, GUID tree is accessed for lookup.
However, as it is performed on startup which is single threaded, there
is no need for lock here. A BUG_ON() has been added to ensure this
precondition remains true.
This bug could caused a segfault when using dynamic servers with GUID.
However, it was never reproduced for now.
This must be backported up to 3.0. To avoid a conflict issue, the
previous cleanup patch can be merged before it.
Extract GUID format validation in a dedicated function named
guid_is_valid_fmt(). For the moment, it is only used on guid_insert().
This will be reused when parsing stats-file, to ensure GUID has a valid
format before tree lookup.
Define a new module guid. Its purpose is to be able to attach a global
identifier for various objects such as proxies, servers and listeners.
A new type guid_node is defined. It will be stored in the objects which
can be referenced by such GUID. Several functions are implemented to
properly initialized, insert, remove and lookup GUID in a global tree.
Modification operations should only be conducted under thread isolation.
