[PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem
This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your
luck with it might be different.
Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
(finished the conversion)
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_misc.c b/fs/binfmt_misc.c
index 2568eb4..9ccc7d8 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_misc.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_misc.c
@@ -588,11 +588,11 @@
case 2: set_bit(Enabled, &e->flags);
break;
case 3: root = dget(file->f_vfsmnt->mnt_sb->s_root);
- down(&root->d_inode->i_sem);
+ mutex_lock(&root->d_inode->i_mutex);
kill_node(e);
- up(&root->d_inode->i_sem);
+ mutex_unlock(&root->d_inode->i_mutex);
dput(root);
break;
default: return res;
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@
return PTR_ERR(e);
root = dget(sb->s_root);
- down(&root->d_inode->i_sem);
+ mutex_lock(&root->d_inode->i_mutex);
dentry = lookup_one_len(e->name, root, strlen(e->name));
err = PTR_ERR(dentry);
if (IS_ERR(dentry))
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@
out2:
dput(dentry);
out:
- up(&root->d_inode->i_sem);
+ mutex_unlock(&root->d_inode->i_mutex);
dput(root);
if (err) {
@@ -703,12 +703,12 @@
case 1: enabled = 0; break;
case 2: enabled = 1; break;
case 3: root = dget(file->f_vfsmnt->mnt_sb->s_root);
- down(&root->d_inode->i_sem);
+ mutex_lock(&root->d_inode->i_mutex);
while (!list_empty(&entries))
kill_node(list_entry(entries.next, Node, list));
- up(&root->d_inode->i_sem);
+ mutex_unlock(&root->d_inode->i_mutex);
dput(root);
default: return res;
}