[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/configfs/inode.c b/fs/configfs/inode.c
index 6b274c6..6577c58 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/configfs/inode.c
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
/*
* Unhashes the dentry corresponding to given configfs_dirent
- * Called with parent inode's i_sem held.
+ * Called with parent inode's i_mutex held.
*/
void configfs_drop_dentry(struct configfs_dirent * sd, struct dentry * parent)
{
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
struct configfs_dirent * sd;
struct configfs_dirent * parent_sd = dir->d_fsdata;
- down(&dir->d_inode->i_sem);
+ mutex_lock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex);
list_for_each_entry(sd, &parent_sd->s_children, s_sibling) {
if (!sd->s_element)
continue;
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@
break;
}
}
- up(&dir->d_inode->i_sem);
+ mutex_unlock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex);
}