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[PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem

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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>
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Jes Sorensen
2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 794ee1baee
commit 1b1dcc1b57
113 changed files with 563 additions and 573 deletions
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@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ ntfschar I30[5] = { const_cpu_to_le16('$'), const_cpu_to_le16('I'),
* work but we don't care for how quickly one can access them. This also fixes
* the dcache aliasing issues.
*
* Locking: - Caller must hold i_sem on the directory.
* Locking: - Caller must hold i_mutex on the directory.
* - Each page cache page in the index allocation mapping must be
* locked whilst being accessed otherwise we may find a corrupt
* page due to it being under ->writepage at the moment which
@@ -1085,11 +1085,11 @@ static inline int ntfs_filldir(ntfs_volume *vol, loff_t fpos,
* While this will return the names in random order this doesn't matter for
* ->readdir but OTOH results in a faster ->readdir.
*
* VFS calls ->readdir without BKL but with i_sem held. This protects the VFS
* VFS calls ->readdir without BKL but with i_mutex held. This protects the VFS
* parts (e.g. ->f_pos and ->i_size, and it also protects against directory
* modifications).
*
* Locking: - Caller must hold i_sem on the directory.
* Locking: - Caller must hold i_mutex on the directory.
* - Each page cache page in the index allocation mapping must be
* locked whilst being accessed otherwise we may find a corrupt
* page due to it being under ->writepage at the moment which
@@ -1520,7 +1520,7 @@ static int ntfs_dir_open(struct inode *vi, struct file *filp)
* Note: In the past @filp could be NULL so we ignore it as we don't need it
* anyway.
*
* Locking: Caller must hold i_sem on the inode.
* Locking: Caller must hold i_mutex on the inode.
*
* TODO: We should probably also write all attribute/index inodes associated
* with this inode but since we have no simple way of getting to them we ignore