[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/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 66ec430..dfbb89f 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@
/*
* Lock ordering in mm:
*
- * inode->i_sem (while writing or truncating, not reading or faulting)
+ * inode->i_mutex (while writing or truncating, not reading or faulting)
* inode->i_alloc_sem
*
* When a page fault occurs in writing from user to file, down_read
- * of mmap_sem nests within i_sem; in sys_msync, i_sem nests within
- * down_read of mmap_sem; i_sem and down_write of mmap_sem are never
- * taken together; in truncation, i_sem is taken outermost.
+ * of mmap_sem nests within i_mutex; in sys_msync, i_mutex nests within
+ * down_read of mmap_sem; i_mutex and down_write of mmap_sem are never
+ * taken together; in truncation, i_mutex is taken outermost.
*
* mm->mmap_sem
* page->flags PG_locked (lock_page)