[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/cifs/inode.c b/fs/cifs/inode.c
index 9558f51..3ebce94 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/inode.c
@@ -1040,9 +1040,9 @@
}
/* can not grab this sem since kernel filesys locking documentation
- indicates i_sem may be taken by the kernel on lookup and rename
- which could deadlock if we grab the i_sem here as well */
-/* down(&direntry->d_inode->i_sem);*/
+ indicates i_mutex may be taken by the kernel on lookup and rename
+ which could deadlock if we grab the i_mutex here as well */
+/* mutex_lock(&direntry->d_inode->i_mutex);*/
/* need to write out dirty pages here */
if (direntry->d_inode->i_mapping) {
/* do we need to lock inode until after invalidate completes
@@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@
}
}
}
-/* up(&direntry->d_inode->i_sem); */
+/* mutex_unlock(&direntry->d_inode->i_mutex); */
kfree(full_path);
FreeXid(xid);