[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/namei.c b/fs/ntfs/namei.c
index 351dbc3..5ea9eb9 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/namei.c
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
* name. We then convert the name to the current NLS code page, and proceed
* searching for a dentry with this name, etc, as in case 2), above.
*
- * Locking: Caller must hold i_sem on the directory.
+ * Locking: Caller must hold i_mutex on the directory.
*/
static struct dentry *ntfs_lookup(struct inode *dir_ino, struct dentry *dent,
struct nameidata *nd)
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@
nls_name.hash = full_name_hash(nls_name.name, nls_name.len);
/*
- * Note: No need for dent->d_lock lock as i_sem is held on the
+ * Note: No need for dent->d_lock lock as i_mutex is held on the
* parent inode.
*/
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@
* The code is based on the ext3 ->get_parent() implementation found in
* fs/ext3/namei.c::ext3_get_parent().
*
- * Note: ntfs_get_parent() is called with @child_dent->d_inode->i_sem down.
+ * Note: ntfs_get_parent() is called with @child_dent->d_inode->i_mutex down.
*
* Return the dentry of the parent directory on success or the error code on
* error (IS_ERR() is true).