[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>
diff --git a/include/linux/jffs2_fs_i.h b/include/linux/jffs2_fs_i.h
index ef85ab5..ad565bf 100644
--- a/include/linux/jffs2_fs_i.h
+++ b/include/linux/jffs2_fs_i.h
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@
#include <asm/semaphore.h>
struct jffs2_inode_info {
- /* We need an internal semaphore similar to inode->i_sem.
+ /* We need an internal mutex similar to inode->i_mutex.
Unfortunately, we can't used the existing one, because
either the GC would deadlock, or we'd have to release it
before letting GC proceed. Or we'd have to put ugliness
- into the GC code so it didn't attempt to obtain the i_sem
+ into the GC code so it didn't attempt to obtain the i_mutex
for the inode(s) which are already locked */
struct semaphore sem;
