Wengang Wang c18ceab012 ocfs2: change ip_unaligned_aio to of type mutex from atomit_t ...

There is a problem that waitqueue_active() may check stale data thus miss
a wakeup of threads waiting on ip_unaligned_aio.

The valid value of ip_unaligned_aio is only 0 and 1 so we can change it to
be of type mutex thus the above prolem is avoid.  Another benifit is that
mutex which works as FIFO is fairer than wake_up_all().

Signed-off-by: Wengang Wang <wen.gang.wang@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2014-04-03 16:20:53 -07:00

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