[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/inode.c b/fs/ntfs/inode.c
index b24f4c4..bda7a08 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/inode.c
@@ -2125,13 +2125,13 @@
ntfs_inode *ni = NTFS_I(vi);
if (NInoIndexAllocPresent(ni)) {
struct inode *bvi = NULL;
- down(&vi->i_sem);
+ mutex_lock(&vi->i_mutex);
if (atomic_read(&vi->i_count) == 2) {
bvi = ni->itype.index.bmp_ino;
if (bvi)
ni->itype.index.bmp_ino = NULL;
}
- up(&vi->i_sem);
+ mutex_unlock(&vi->i_mutex);
if (bvi)
iput(bvi);
}
@@ -2311,7 +2311,7 @@
*
* Returns 0 on success or -errno on error.
*
- * Called with ->i_sem held. In all but one case ->i_alloc_sem is held for
+ * Called with ->i_mutex held. In all but one case ->i_alloc_sem is held for
* writing. The only case in the kernel where ->i_alloc_sem is not held is
* mm/filemap.c::generic_file_buffered_write() where vmtruncate() is called
* with the current i_size as the offset. The analogous place in NTFS is in
@@ -2831,7 +2831,7 @@
* We also abort all changes of user, group, and mode as we do not implement
* the NTFS ACLs yet.
*
- * Called with ->i_sem held. For the ATTR_SIZE (i.e. ->truncate) case, also
+ * Called with ->i_mutex held. For the ATTR_SIZE (i.e. ->truncate) case, also
* called with ->i_alloc_sem held for writing.
*
* Basically this is a copy of generic notify_change() and inode_setattr()