[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/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c
index 7c45acf..c3dbebd 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/super.c
@@ -2601,7 +2601,7 @@
struct buffer_head *bh;
handle_t *handle = journal_current_handle();
- down(&inode->i_sem);
+ mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
while (towrite > 0) {
tocopy = sb->s_blocksize - offset < towrite ?
sb->s_blocksize - offset : towrite;
@@ -2644,7 +2644,7 @@
inode->i_version++;
inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
ext3_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
- up(&inode->i_sem);
+ mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
return len - towrite;
}