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| author |   Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> | 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -0800 |
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| committer |   Ingo Molnar <mingo@hera.kernel.org> | 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -0800 |
| commit | 1b1dcc1b57a49136f118a0f16367256ff9994a69 (patch) | |
| tree | b0b36d4f41d28c9d6514fb309d33c1a084d6309b /mm/rmap.c | |
| parent | [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: XFS (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-1b1dcc1b57a49136f118a0f16367256ff9994a69.tar.xz linux-dev-1b1dcc1b57a49136f118a0f16367256ff9994a69.zip | |
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/rmap.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/rmap.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c index 66ec43053a4d..dfbb89f99a15 100644 --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c @@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ /* * Lock ordering in mm: * - * inode->i_sem (while writing or truncating, not reading or faulting) + * inode->i_mutex (while writing or truncating, not reading or faulting) * inode->i_alloc_sem * * When a page fault occurs in writing from user to file, down_read - * of mmap_sem nests within i_sem; in sys_msync, i_sem nests within - * down_read of mmap_sem; i_sem and down_write of mmap_sem are never - * taken together; in truncation, i_sem is taken outermost. + * of mmap_sem nests within i_mutex; in sys_msync, i_mutex nests within + * down_read of mmap_sem; i_mutex and down_write of mmap_sem are never + * taken together; in truncation, i_mutex is taken outermost. * * mm->mmap_sem * page->flags PG_locked (lock_page) |