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authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>2011-03-22 14:23:41 +0300
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-03-25 04:17:51 +0300
commita66979abad090b2765a6c6790c9fdeab996833f2 (patch)
treee48b2d0fac8f96456286a503aeeb952620234961 /mm/backing-dev.c
parent55fa6091d83160ca772fc37cebae45d42695a708 (diff)
downloadlinux-a66979abad090b2765a6c6790c9fdeab996833f2.tar.xz
fs: move i_wb_list out from under inode_lock
Protect the inode writeback list with a new global lock inode_wb_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 'mm/backing-dev.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/backing-dev.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 027100d30227..4b3e9f17ee21 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -73,14 +73,14 @@ static int bdi_debug_stats_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
struct inode *inode;
nr_wb = nr_dirty = nr_io = nr_more_io = 0;
- spin_lock(&inode_lock);
+ spin_lock(&inode_wb_list_lock);
list_for_each_entry(inode, &wb->b_dirty, i_wb_list)
nr_dirty++;
list_for_each_entry(inode, &wb->b_io, i_wb_list)
nr_io++;
list_for_each_entry(inode, &wb->b_more_io, i_wb_list)
nr_more_io++;
- spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
+ spin_unlock(&inode_wb_list_lock);
global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
bdi_thresh = bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty_thresh);
@@ -682,11 +682,11 @@ void bdi_destroy(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
if (bdi_has_dirty_io(bdi)) {
struct bdi_writeback *dst = &default_backing_dev_info.wb;
- spin_lock(&inode_lock);
+ spin_lock(&inode_wb_list_lock);
list_splice(&bdi->wb.b_dirty, &dst->b_dirty);
list_splice(&bdi->wb.b_io, &dst->b_io);
list_splice(&bdi->wb.b_more_io, &dst->b_more_io);
- spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
+ spin_unlock(&inode_wb_list_lock);
}
bdi_unregister(bdi);