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authorDavid Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>2008-10-30 17:16:11 +1100
committerLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>2008-10-30 17:16:11 +1100
commita4e4c4f4a8f9376158f8181a75285091f52a79e3 (patch)
tree146e3f2d51e60db4536895a0cd4eb69a33762d37 /fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
parentcb56a4b995d44b7990ca3acd18db571eedd0649f (diff)
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[XFS] Kill xfs_sync()
There are no more callers to xfs_sync() now, so remove the function altogther. SGI-PV: 988140 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32311a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c15
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
index 1256746b249f..58865fe47806 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
@@ -431,14 +431,13 @@ xfs_ireclaim(xfs_inode_t *ip)
xfs_iextract(ip);
/*
- * Here we do a spurious inode lock in order to coordinate with
- * xfs_sync(). This is because xfs_sync() references the inodes
- * in the mount list without taking references on the corresponding
- * vnodes. We make that OK here by ensuring that we wait until
- * the inode is unlocked in xfs_sync() before we go ahead and
- * free it. We get both the regular lock and the io lock because
- * the xfs_sync() code may need to drop the regular one but will
- * still hold the io lock.
+ * Here we do a spurious inode lock in order to coordinate with inode
+ * cache radix tree lookups. This is because the lookup can reference
+ * the inodes in the cache without taking references. We make that OK
+ * here by ensuring that we wait until the inode is unlocked after the
+ * lookup before we go ahead and free it. We get both the ilock and
+ * the iolock because the code may need to drop the ilock one but will
+ * still hold the iolock.
*/
xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL | XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL);