[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/jffs/inode-v23.c b/fs/jffs/inode-v23.c
index 2559ee10..fc3855a 100644
--- a/fs/jffs/inode-v23.c
+++ b/fs/jffs/inode-v23.c
@@ -1415,7 +1415,7 @@
* This will never trigger with sane page sizes. leave it in
* anyway, since I'm thinking about how to merge larger writes
* (the current idea is to poke a thread that does the actual
- * I/O and starts by doing a down(&inode->i_sem). then we
+ * I/O and starts by doing a mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex). then we
* would need to get the page cache pages and have a list of
* I/O requests and do write-merging here.
* -- prumpf