[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>
This commit is contained in:
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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@@ -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 @@ handle_name:
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 @@ struct inode_operations ntfs_dir_inode_ops = {
* 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).