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| author | Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> | 2011-03-22 22:23:41 +1100 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2011-03-24 21:17:51 -0400 |
| commit | a66979abad090b2765a6c6790c9fdeab996833f2 (patch) | |
| tree | e48b2d0fac8f96456286a503aeeb952620234961 /include/linux/writeback.h | |
| parent | 55fa6091d83160ca772fc37cebae45d42695a708 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-a66979abad090b2765a6c6790c9fdeab996833f2.tar.gz lwn-a66979abad090b2765a6c6790c9fdeab996833f2.zip | |
fs: move i_wb_list out from under inode_lock
Protect the inode writeback list with a new global lock
inode_wb_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 'include/linux/writeback.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/writeback.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h index 0ead399e08b5..3f5fee718329 100644 --- a/include/linux/writeback.h +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ struct backing_dev_info; extern spinlock_t inode_lock; +extern spinlock_t inode_wb_list_lock; /* * fs/fs-writeback.c |