[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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@ -1532,7 +1532,7 @@ int ntfs_resident_attr_value_resize(MFT_RECORD *m, ATTR_RECORD *a,
* NOTE to self: No changes in the attribute list are required to move from
* a resident to a non-resident attribute.
*
* Locking: - The caller must hold i_sem on the inode.
* Locking: - The caller must hold i_mutex on the inode.
*/
int ntfs_attr_make_non_resident(ntfs_inode *ni, const u32 data_size)
{
@ -1728,7 +1728,7 @@ int ntfs_attr_make_non_resident(ntfs_inode *ni, const u32 data_size)
/*
* This needs to be last since the address space operations ->readpage
* and ->writepage can run concurrently with us as they are not
* serialized on i_sem. Note, we are not allowed to fail once we flip
* serialized on i_mutex. Note, we are not allowed to fail once we flip
* this switch, which is another reason to do this last.
*/
NInoSetNonResident(ni);