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| author | Joern Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> | 2007-10-16 23:30:44 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-17 08:43:02 -0700 |
| commit | 1c0eeaf5698597146ed9b873e2f9e0961edcf0f9 (patch) | |
| tree | 5265eac8437e8ce517a62db8fe2bd99db5b7019b /fs/inode.c | |
| parent | 2e6883bdf49abd0e7f0d9b6297fc3be7ebb2250b (diff) | |
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introduce I_SYNC
I_LOCK was used for several unrelated purposes, which caused deadlock
situations in certain filesystems as a side effect. One of the purposes
now uses the new I_SYNC bit.
Also document the various bits and change their order from historical to
logical.
[bunk@stusta.de: make fs/inode.c:wake_up_inode() static]
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/inode.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/inode.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index c6165771e00e..ed35383d0b6c 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -99,6 +99,15 @@ struct inodes_stat_t inodes_stat; static struct kmem_cache * inode_cachep __read_mostly; +static void wake_up_inode(struct inode *inode) +{ + /* + * Prevent speculative execution through spin_unlock(&inode_lock); + */ + smp_mb(); + wake_up_bit(&inode->i_state, __I_LOCK); +} + static struct inode *alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb) { static const struct address_space_operations empty_aops; @@ -232,7 +241,7 @@ void __iget(struct inode * inode) return; } atomic_inc(&inode->i_count); - if (!(inode->i_state & (I_DIRTY|I_LOCK))) + if (!(inode->i_state & (I_DIRTY|I_SYNC))) list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode_in_use); inodes_stat.nr_unused--; } @@ -253,7 +262,7 @@ void clear_inode(struct inode *inode) BUG_ON(inode->i_data.nrpages); BUG_ON(!(inode->i_state & I_FREEING)); BUG_ON(inode->i_state & I_CLEAR); - wait_on_inode(inode); + inode_sync_wait(inode); DQUOT_DROP(inode); if (inode->i_sb->s_op->clear_inode) inode->i_sb->s_op->clear_inode(inode); @@ -1071,7 +1080,7 @@ static void generic_forget_inode(struct inode *inode) struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb; if (!hlist_unhashed(&inode->i_hash)) { - if (!(inode->i_state & (I_DIRTY|I_LOCK))) + if (!(inode->i_state & (I_DIRTY|I_SYNC))) list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode_unused); inodes_stat.nr_unused++; if (sb->s_flags & MS_ACTIVE) { @@ -1314,15 +1323,6 @@ static void __wait_on_freeing_inode(struct inode *inode) spin_lock(&inode_lock); } -void wake_up_inode(struct inode *inode) -{ - /* - * Prevent speculative execution through spin_unlock(&inode_lock); - */ - smp_mb(); - wake_up_bit(&inode->i_state, __I_LOCK); -} - /* * We rarely want to lock two inodes that do not have a parent/child * relationship (such as directory, child inode) simultaneously. The |