introduce I_SYNC

I_LOCK was used for several unrelated purposes, which caused deadlock
situations in certain filesystems as a side effect.  One of the purposes
now uses the new I_SYNC bit.

Also document the various bits and change their order from historical to
logical.

[bunk@stusta.de: make fs/inode.c:wake_up_inode() static]
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joern Engel 2007-10-16 23:30:44 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 2e6883bdf4
commit 1c0eeaf569
8 changed files with 116 additions and 42 deletions

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@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ static void hugetlbfs_forget_inode(struct inode *inode) __releases(inode_lock)
struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
if (!hlist_unhashed(&inode->i_hash)) {
if (!(inode->i_state & (I_DIRTY|I_LOCK)))
if (!(inode->i_state & (I_DIRTY|I_SYNC)))
list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode_unused);
inodes_stat.nr_unused++;
if (!sb || (sb->s_flags & MS_ACTIVE)) {