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| author | Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> | 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@hera.kernel.org> | 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -0800 |
| commit | 1b1dcc1b57a49136f118a0f16367256ff9994a69 (patch) | |
| tree | b0b36d4f41d28c9d6514fb309d33c1a084d6309b /fs/buffer.c | |
| parent | 794ee1baee1c26be40410233e6c20bceb2b03c08 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-1b1dcc1b57a49136f118a0f16367256ff9994a69.tar.gz lwn-1b1dcc1b57a49136f118a0f16367256ff9994a69.zip | |
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/buffer.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/buffer.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 55f0975a9b15..6466bc8a3dc7 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -352,11 +352,11 @@ static long do_fsync(unsigned int fd, int datasync) * We need to protect against concurrent writers, * which could cause livelocks in fsync_buffers_list */ - down(&mapping->host->i_sem); + mutex_lock(&mapping->host->i_mutex); err = file->f_op->fsync(file, file->f_dentry, datasync); if (!ret) ret = err; - up(&mapping->host->i_sem); + mutex_unlock(&mapping->host->i_mutex); err = filemap_fdatawait(mapping); if (!ret) ret = err; @@ -2338,7 +2338,7 @@ int generic_commit_write(struct file *file, struct page *page, __block_commit_write(inode,page,from,to); /* * No need to use i_size_read() here, the i_size - * cannot change under us because we hold i_sem. + * cannot change under us because we hold i_mutex. */ if (pos > inode->i_size) { i_size_write(inode, pos); |