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authorLouis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>2008-06-16 21:00:58 +0400
committerMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>2008-07-15 00:57:15 +0400
commit6f61076406251626be39651d114fac412b1e0c39 (patch)
treed7adb1de212cfb7ead490b448bf75ce3b3b91c9c /fs/configfs/inode.c
parentfe9f387740ac7cb3b7c2fffa76807e997e6c6292 (diff)
downloadlinux-6f61076406251626be39651d114fac412b1e0c39.tar.xz
configfs: Introduce configfs_dirent_lock
This patch introduces configfs_dirent_lock spinlock to protect configfs_dirent traversals against linkage mutations (add/del/move). This will allow configfs_detach_prep() to avoid locking i_mutexes. Locking rules for configfs_dirent linkage mutations are the same plus the requirement of taking configfs_dirent_lock. For configfs_dirent walking, one can either take appropriate i_mutex as before, or take configfs_dirent_lock. The spinlock could actually be a mutex, but the critical sections are either O(1) or should not be too long (default groups walking in last patch). ChangeLog: - Clarify the comment on configfs_dirent_lock usage - Move sd->s_element init before linking the new dirent - In lseek(), do not release configfs_dirent_lock before the dirent is relinked. Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/configfs/inode.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/configfs/inode.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/configfs/inode.c b/fs/configfs/inode.c
index b9a1d810346d..4803ccc94480 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/configfs/inode.c
@@ -247,7 +247,9 @@ void configfs_hash_and_remove(struct dentry * dir, const char * name)
if (!sd->s_element)
continue;
if (!strcmp(configfs_get_name(sd), name)) {
+ spin_lock(&configfs_dirent_lock);
list_del_init(&sd->s_sibling);
+ spin_unlock(&configfs_dirent_lock);
configfs_drop_dentry(sd, dir);
configfs_put(sd);
break;