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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
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include/linux/ext3_fs_i.h
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@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ struct ext3_inode_info {
#ifdef CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR
/*
* Extended attributes can be read independently of the main file
* data. Taking i_sem even when reading would cause contention
* data. Taking i_mutex even when reading would cause contention
* between readers of EAs and writers of regular file data, so
* instead we synchronize on xattr_sem when reading or changing
* EAs.