[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/ntfs/attrib.c b/fs/ntfs/attrib.c
index eda056b..9480a05 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/attrib.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/attrib.c
@@ -1532,7 +1532,7 @@
* NOTE to self: No changes in the attribute list are required to move from
* a resident to a non-resident attribute.
*
- * Locking: - The caller must hold i_sem on the inode.
+ * Locking: - The caller must hold i_mutex on the inode.
*/
int ntfs_attr_make_non_resident(ntfs_inode *ni, const u32 data_size)
{
@@ -1728,7 +1728,7 @@
/*
* This needs to be last since the address space operations ->readpage
* and ->writepage can run concurrently with us as they are not
- * serialized on i_sem. Note, we are not allowed to fail once we flip
+ * serialized on i_mutex. Note, we are not allowed to fail once we flip
* this switch, which is another reason to do this last.
*/
NInoSetNonResident(ni);