[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>
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Jes Sorensen
2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 794ee1baee
commit 1b1dcc1b57
113 changed files with 563 additions and 573 deletions

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@@ -1415,7 +1415,7 @@ jffs_file_write(struct file *filp, const char *buf, size_t count,
* 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