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authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>2011-03-22 14:23:40 +0300
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-03-25 04:16:32 +0300
commit55fa6091d83160ca772fc37cebae45d42695a708 (patch)
tree4df49f372032e30449e1a2dd64daf443e20b781c /fs/fs-writeback.c
parentf283c86afe6aa70b733d1ecebad5d9464943b774 (diff)
downloadlinux-55fa6091d83160ca772fc37cebae45d42695a708.tar.xz
fs: move i_sb_list out from under inode_lock
Protect the per-sb inode list with a new global lock inode_sb_list_lock and use it to protect the list manipulations and traversals. This lock replaces the inode_lock as the inodes on the list can be validity checked while holding the inode->i_lock and hence the inode_lock is no longer needed to protect the list. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/fs-writeback.c21
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index efd1ebe879cc..5de56a2182bb 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -1123,7 +1123,7 @@ static void wait_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb)
*/
WARN_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&sb->s_umount));
- spin_lock(&inode_lock);
+ spin_lock(&inode_sb_list_lock);
/*
* Data integrity sync. Must wait for all pages under writeback,
@@ -1143,14 +1143,15 @@ static void wait_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb)
}
__iget(inode);
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
- spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
+ spin_unlock(&inode_sb_list_lock);
+
/*
- * We hold a reference to 'inode' so it couldn't have
- * been removed from s_inodes list while we dropped the
- * inode_lock. We cannot iput the inode now as we can
- * be holding the last reference and we cannot iput it
- * under inode_lock. So we keep the reference and iput
- * it later.
+ * We hold a reference to 'inode' so it couldn't have been
+ * removed from s_inodes list while we dropped the
+ * inode_sb_list_lock. We cannot iput the inode now as we can
+ * be holding the last reference and we cannot iput it under
+ * inode_sb_list_lock. So we keep the reference and iput it
+ * later.
*/
iput(old_inode);
old_inode = inode;
@@ -1159,9 +1160,9 @@ static void wait_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb)
cond_resched();
- spin_lock(&inode_lock);
+ spin_lock(&inode_sb_list_lock);
}
- spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
+ spin_unlock(&inode_sb_list_lock);
iput(old_inode);
}