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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/fs.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/fs.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 4c82219b0fae..01654b218e42 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -219,6 +219,7 @@ extern int dir_notify_enable; #include <linux/prio_tree.h> #include <linux/init.h> #include <linux/sched.h> +#include <linux/mutex.h> #include <asm/atomic.h> #include <asm/semaphore.h> @@ -484,7 +485,7 @@ struct inode { unsigned long i_blocks; unsigned short i_bytes; spinlock_t i_lock; /* i_blocks, i_bytes, maybe i_size */ - struct semaphore i_sem; + struct mutex i_mutex; struct rw_semaphore i_alloc_sem; struct inode_operations *i_op; struct file_operations *i_fop; /* former ->i_op->default_file_ops */ @@ -1191,7 +1192,7 @@ int sync_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc); * directory. The name should be stored in the @name (with the * understanding that it is already pointing to a a %NAME_MAX+1 sized * buffer. get_name() should return %0 on success, a negative error code - * or error. @get_name will be called without @parent->i_sem held. + * or error. @get_name will be called without @parent->i_mutex held. * * get_parent: * @get_parent should find the parent directory for the given @child which @@ -1213,7 +1214,7 @@ int sync_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc); * nfsd_find_fh_dentry() in either the @obj or @parent parameters. * * Locking rules: - * get_parent is called with child->d_inode->i_sem down + * get_parent is called with child->d_inode->i_mutex down * get_name is not (which is possibly inconsistent) */ |
