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fs: cleanup files_lock locking

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fs: cleanup files_lock locking

Lock tty_files with a new spinlock, tty_files_lock; provide helpers to
manipulate the per-sb files list; unexport the files_lock spinlock.

Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Nick Piggin
2010-08-18 04:37:35 +10:00
committed by Al Viro
parent b04f784e5d
commit ee2ffa0dfd
7 changed files with 48 additions and 42 deletions
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@@ -676,7 +676,11 @@ static int ptmx_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
set_bit(TTY_PTY_LOCK, &tty->flags); /* LOCK THE SLAVE */
filp->private_data = tty;
file_move(filp, &tty->tty_files);
file_sb_list_del(filp); /* __dentry_open has put it on the sb list */
spin_lock(&tty_files_lock);
list_add(&filp->f_u.fu_list, &tty->tty_files);
spin_unlock(&tty_files_lock);
retval = devpts_pty_new(inode, tty->link);
if (retval)