[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/ipc/mqueue.c b/ipc/mqueue.c
index c8943b5..a8aa615 100644
--- a/ipc/mqueue.c
+++ b/ipc/mqueue.c
@@ -660,7 +660,7 @@
if (fd < 0)
goto out_putname;
- down(&mqueue_mnt->mnt_root->d_inode->i_sem);
+ mutex_lock(&mqueue_mnt->mnt_root->d_inode->i_mutex);
dentry = lookup_one_len(name, mqueue_mnt->mnt_root, strlen(name));
if (IS_ERR(dentry)) {
error = PTR_ERR(dentry);
@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@
out_err:
fd = error;
out_upsem:
- up(&mqueue_mnt->mnt_root->d_inode->i_sem);
+ mutex_unlock(&mqueue_mnt->mnt_root->d_inode->i_mutex);
out_putname:
putname(name);
return fd;
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@
if (IS_ERR(name))
return PTR_ERR(name);
- down(&mqueue_mnt->mnt_root->d_inode->i_sem);
+ mutex_lock(&mqueue_mnt->mnt_root->d_inode->i_mutex);
dentry = lookup_one_len(name, mqueue_mnt->mnt_root, strlen(name));
if (IS_ERR(dentry)) {
err = PTR_ERR(dentry);
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@
dput(dentry);
out_unlock:
- up(&mqueue_mnt->mnt_root->d_inode->i_sem);
+ mutex_unlock(&mqueue_mnt->mnt_root->d_inode->i_mutex);
putname(name);
if (inode)
iput(inode);