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fs: move i_wb_list out from under inode_lock

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Protect the inode writeback list with a new global lock
inode_wb_list_lock and use it to protect the list manipulations and
traversals. This lock replaces the inode_lock as the inodes on the
list can be validity checked while holding the inode->i_lock and
hence the inode_lock is no longer needed to protect the list.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Dave Chinner
2011-03-22 22:23:41 +11:00
committed by Al Viro
parent 55fa6091d8
commit a66979abad
8 changed files with 70 additions and 48 deletions
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fs/block_dev.c
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@ -55,13 +55,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(I_BDEV);
static void bdev_inode_switch_bdi(struct inode *inode,
struct backing_dev_info *dst)
{
spin_lock(&inode_lock);
spin_lock(&inode_wb_list_lock);
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
inode->i_data.backing_dev_info = dst;
if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY)
list_move(&inode->i_wb_list, &dst->wb.b_dirty);
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
spin_unlock(&inode_wb_list_lock);
}
static sector_t max_block(struct block_device *bdev)