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| author | Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> | 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@hera.kernel.org> | 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -0800 |
| commit | 1b1dcc1b57a49136f118a0f16367256ff9994a69 (patch) | |
| tree | b0b36d4f41d28c9d6514fb309d33c1a084d6309b /include/linux/jffs2_fs_i.h | |
| parent | 794ee1baee1c26be40410233e6c20bceb2b03c08 (diff) | |
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[PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem
This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your
luck with it might be different.
Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
(finished the conversion)
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/jffs2_fs_i.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/jffs2_fs_i.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/jffs2_fs_i.h b/include/linux/jffs2_fs_i.h index ef85ab56302b..ad565bf9dcc1 100644 --- a/include/linux/jffs2_fs_i.h +++ b/include/linux/jffs2_fs_i.h @@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ #include <asm/semaphore.h> struct jffs2_inode_info { - /* We need an internal semaphore similar to inode->i_sem. + /* We need an internal mutex similar to inode->i_mutex. Unfortunately, we can't used the existing one, because either the GC would deadlock, or we'd have to release it before letting GC proceed. Or we'd have to put ugliness - into the GC code so it didn't attempt to obtain the i_sem + into the GC code so it didn't attempt to obtain the i_mutex for the inode(s) which are already locked */ struct semaphore sem; |
