From b89f432133851a01c0d28822f11cbdcc15781a75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:09:31 +0200 Subject: fs/locks.c: prepare for BKL removal This prepares the removal of the big kernel lock from the file locking code. We still use the BKL as long as fs/lockd uses it and ceph might sleep, but we can flip the definition to a private spinlock as soon as that's done. All users outside of fs/lockd get converted to use lock_flocks() instead of lock_kernel() where appropriate. Based on an earlier patch to use a spinlock from Matthew Wilcox, who has attempted this a few times before, the earliest patch from over 10 years ago turned it into a semaphore, which ended up being slower than the BKL and was subsequently reverted. Someone should do some serious performance testing when this becomes a spinlock, since this has caused problems before. Using a spinlock should be at least as good as the BKL in theory, but who knows... Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Trond Myklebust Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: John Kacur Cc: Sage Weil Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org --- fs/afs/flock.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/afs/flock.c') diff --git a/fs/afs/flock.c b/fs/afs/flock.c index 0931bc1325eb..757d664575dd 100644 --- a/fs/afs/flock.c +++ b/fs/afs/flock.c @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. */ -#include #include "internal.h" #define AFS_LOCK_GRANTED 0 @@ -274,7 +273,7 @@ static int afs_do_setlk(struct file *file, struct file_lock *fl) type = (fl->fl_type == F_RDLCK) ? AFS_LOCK_READ : AFS_LOCK_WRITE; - lock_kernel(); + lock_flocks(); /* make sure we've got a callback on this file and that our view of the * data version is up to date */ @@ -421,7 +420,7 @@ given_lock: afs_vnode_fetch_status(vnode, NULL, key); error: - unlock_kernel(); + unlock_flocks(); _leave(" = %d", ret); return ret; -- cgit v1.2.1