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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 /mm/page-writeback.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 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index bcdbbf6c4a85..d8c21e5a1bc9 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ /* * The maximum number of pages to writeout in a single bdflush/kupdate - * operation. We do this so we don't hold I_LOCK against an inode for + * operation. We do this so we don't hold I_SYNC against an inode for * enormous amounts of time, which would block a userspace task which has * been forced to throttle against that inode. Also, the code reevaluates * the dirty each time it has written this many pages. |