[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 <[email protected]>

(finished the conversion)

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Jes Sorensen 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar
commit 1b1dcc1b57
113 changed files with 563 additions and 573 deletions

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@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ struct jfs_inode_info {
/*
* rdwrlock serializes xtree between reads & writes and synchronizes
* changes to special inodes. It's use would be redundant on
* directories since the i_sem taken in the VFS is sufficient.
* directories since the i_mutex taken in the VFS is sufficient.
*/
struct rw_semaphore rdwrlock;
/*
@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ struct jfs_inode_info {
* inode is blocked in txBegin or TxBeginAnon
*/
struct semaphore commit_sem;
/* xattr_sem allows us to access the xattrs without taking i_sem */
/* xattr_sem allows us to access the xattrs without taking i_mutex */
struct rw_semaphore xattr_sem;
lid_t xtlid; /* lid of xtree lock on directory */
#ifdef CONFIG_JFS_POSIX_ACL