NFSD: Make it possible to use svc_set_num_threads_sync

nfsd cannot currently use svc_set_num_threads_sync.  It instead
uses svc_set_num_threads which does *not* wait for threads to all
exit, and has a separate mechanism (nfsd_shutdown_complete) to wait
for completion.

The reason that nfsd is unlike other services is that nfsd threads can
exit separately from svc_set_num_threads being called - they die on
receipt of SIGKILL.  Also, when the last thread exits, the service must
be shut down (sockets closed).

For this, the nfsd_mutex needs to be taken, and as that mutex needs to
be held while svc_set_num_threads is called, the one cannot wait for
the other.

This patch changes the nfsd thread so that it can drop the ref on the
service without blocking on nfsd_mutex, so that svc_set_num_threads_sync
can be used:
 - if it can drop a non-last reference, it does that.  This does not
   trigger shutdown and does not require a mutex.  This will likely
   happen for all but the last thread signalled, and for all threads
   being shut down by nfsd_shutdown_threads()
 - if it can get the mutex without blocking (trylock), it does that
   and then drops the reference.  This will likely happen for the
   last thread killed by SIGKILL
 - Otherwise there might be an unrelated task holding the mutex,
   possibly in another network namespace, or nfsd_shutdown_threads()
   might be just about to get a reference on the service, after which
   we can drop ours safely.
   We cannot conveniently get wakeup notifications on these events,
   and we are unlikely to need to, so we sleep briefly and check again.

With this we can discard nfsd_shutdown_complete and
nfsd_complete_shutdown(), and switch to svc_set_num_threads_sync.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>

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