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author | Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> | 2011-03-22 22:23:40 +1100 |
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committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2011-03-24 21:16:32 -0400 |
commit | 55fa6091d83160ca772fc37cebae45d42695a708 (patch) | |
tree | 4df49f372032e30449e1a2dd64daf443e20b781c /fs/fs-writeback.c | |
parent | f283c86afe6aa70b733d1ecebad5d9464943b774 (diff) | |
download | lwn-55fa6091d83160ca772fc37cebae45d42695a708.tar.gz lwn-55fa6091d83160ca772fc37cebae45d42695a708.zip |
fs: move i_sb_list out from under inode_lock
Protect the per-sb inode list with a new global lock
inode_sb_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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/fs-writeback.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index efd1ebe879cc..5de56a2182bb 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -1123,7 +1123,7 @@ static void wait_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb) */ WARN_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&sb->s_umount)); - spin_lock(&inode_lock); + spin_lock(&inode_sb_list_lock); /* * Data integrity sync. Must wait for all pages under writeback, @@ -1143,14 +1143,15 @@ static void wait_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb) } __iget(inode); spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); - spin_unlock(&inode_lock); + spin_unlock(&inode_sb_list_lock); + /* - * We hold a reference to 'inode' so it couldn't have - * been removed from s_inodes list while we dropped the - * inode_lock. We cannot iput the inode now as we can - * be holding the last reference and we cannot iput it - * under inode_lock. So we keep the reference and iput - * it later. + * We hold a reference to 'inode' so it couldn't have been + * removed from s_inodes list while we dropped the + * inode_sb_list_lock. We cannot iput the inode now as we can + * be holding the last reference and we cannot iput it under + * inode_sb_list_lock. So we keep the reference and iput it + * later. */ iput(old_inode); old_inode = inode; @@ -1159,9 +1160,9 @@ static void wait_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb) cond_resched(); - spin_lock(&inode_lock); + spin_lock(&inode_sb_list_lock); } - spin_unlock(&inode_lock); + spin_unlock(&inode_sb_list_lock); iput(old_inode); } |