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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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fs/sysfs/inode.c
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@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ const unsigned char * sysfs_get_name(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
/*
* Unhashes the dentry corresponding to given sysfs_dirent
* Called with parent inode's i_sem held.
* Called with parent inode's i_mutex held.
*/
void sysfs_drop_dentry(struct sysfs_dirent * sd, struct dentry * parent)
{
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ void sysfs_hash_and_remove(struct dentry * dir, const char * name)
/* no inode means this hasn't been made visible yet */
return;
down(&dir->d_inode->i_sem);
mutex_lock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex);
list_for_each_entry(sd, &parent_sd->s_children, s_sibling) {
if (!sd->s_element)
continue;
@@ -243,7 +243,5 @@ void sysfs_hash_and_remove(struct dentry * dir, const char * name)
break;
}
}
up(&dir->d_inode->i_sem);
mutex_unlock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex);
}