[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>
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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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@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@
#include <asm/semaphore.h>
struct jffs2_inode_info {
/* We need an internal semaphore similar to inode->i_sem.
/* We need an internal mutex similar to inode->i_mutex.
Unfortunately, we can't used the existing one, because
either the GC would deadlock, or we'd have to release it
before letting GC proceed. Or we'd have to put ugliness
into the GC code so it didn't attempt to obtain the i_sem
into the GC code so it didn't attempt to obtain the i_mutex
for the inode(s) which are already locked */
struct semaphore sem;