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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
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')
-rw-r--r--mm/backing-dev.c8
-rw-r--r--mm/filemap.c8
-rw-r--r--mm/rmap.c4
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 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);
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 499e9aa91450..d8b34d1a1071 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@
* ->i_mutex
* ->i_alloc_sem (various)
*
- * ->inode_lock
- * ->sb_lock (fs/fs-writeback.c)
+ * inode_wb_list_lock
+ * sb_lock (fs/fs-writeback.c)
* ->mapping->tree_lock (__sync_single_inode)
*
* ->i_mmap_lock
@@ -98,9 +98,9 @@
* ->zone.lru_lock (check_pte_range->isolate_lru_page)
* ->private_lock (page_remove_rmap->set_page_dirty)
* ->tree_lock (page_remove_rmap->set_page_dirty)
- * ->inode_lock (page_remove_rmap->set_page_dirty)
+ * inode_wb_list_lock (page_remove_rmap->set_page_dirty)
* ->inode->i_lock (page_remove_rmap->set_page_dirty)
- * ->inode_lock (zap_pte_range->set_page_dirty)
+ * inode_wb_list_lock (zap_pte_range->set_page_dirty)
* ->inode->i_lock (zap_pte_range->set_page_dirty)
* ->private_lock (zap_pte_range->__set_page_dirty_buffers)
*
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 7dada0456448..8da044a1db0f 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -31,12 +31,12 @@
* swap_lock (in swap_duplicate, swap_info_get)
* mmlist_lock (in mmput, drain_mmlist and others)
* mapping->private_lock (in __set_page_dirty_buffers)
- * inode_lock (in set_page_dirty's __mark_inode_dirty)
* inode->i_lock (in set_page_dirty's __mark_inode_dirty)
+ * inode_wb_list_lock (in set_page_dirty's __mark_inode_dirty)
* sb_lock (within inode_lock in fs/fs-writeback.c)
* mapping->tree_lock (widely used, in set_page_dirty,
* in arch-dependent flush_dcache_mmap_lock,
- * within inode_lock in __sync_single_inode)
+ * within inode_wb_list_lock in __sync_single_inode)
*
* (code doesn't rely on that order so it could be switched around)
* ->tasklist_lock