[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/autofs4/root.c b/fs/autofs4/root.c
index 2241405..541b19e 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/root.c
+++ b/fs/autofs4/root.c
@@ -489,9 +489,9 @@
d_add(dentry, NULL);
if (dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_revalidate) {
- up(&dir->i_sem);
+ mutex_unlock(&dir->i_mutex);
(dentry->d_op->d_revalidate)(dentry, nd);
- down(&dir->i_sem);
+ mutex_lock(&dir->i_mutex);
}
/*