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fs: kill i_alloc_sem

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i_alloc_sem is a rather special rw_semaphore.  It's the last one that may
be released by a non-owner, and it's write side is always mirrored by
real exclusion.  It's intended use it to wait for all pending direct I/O
requests to finish before starting a truncate.

Replace it with a hand-grown construct:

 - exclusion for truncates is already guaranteed by i_mutex, so it can
   simply fall way
 - the reader side is replaced by an i_dio_count member in struct inode
   that counts the number of pending direct I/O requests.  Truncate can't
   proceed as long as it's non-zero
 - when i_dio_count reaches non-zero we wake up a pending truncate using
   wake_up_bit on a new bit in i_flags
 - new references to i_dio_count can't appear while we are waiting for
   it to read zero because the direct I/O count always needs i_mutex
   (or an equivalent like XFS's i_iolock) for starting a new operation.

This scheme is much simpler, and saves the space of a spinlock_t and a
struct list_head in struct inode (typically 160 bits on a non-debug 64-bit
system).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-24 14:29:43 -04:00
committed by Al Viro
parent f9b5570d7f
commit bd5fe6c5eb
13 changed files with 78 additions and 53 deletions
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@@ -168,8 +168,7 @@ int inode_init_always(struct super_block *sb, struct inode *inode)
mutex_init(&inode->i_mutex);
lockdep_set_class(&inode->i_mutex, &sb->s_type->i_mutex_key);
init_rwsem(&inode->i_alloc_sem);
lockdep_set_class(&inode->i_alloc_sem, &sb->s_type->i_alloc_sem_key);
atomic_set(&inode->i_dio_count, 0);
mapping->a_ops = &empty_aops;
mapping->host = inode;