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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200 |
| commit | a1922ed661ab2c1637d0b10cde933bd9cd33d965 (patch) | |
| tree | 0f1777542b385ebefd30b3586d830fd8ed6fda5b /Documentation/filesystems/Locking | |
| parent | 75e33751ca8bbb72dd6f1a74d2810ddc8cbe4bdf (diff) | |
| parent | d28daf923ac5e4a0d7cecebae56f3e339189366b (diff) | |
Merge branch 'tracing/core' into tracing/hw-breakpoints
Conflicts:
arch/Kconfig
kernel/trace/trace.h
Merge reason: resolve the conflicts, plus adopt to the new
ring-buffer APIs.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 45 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 3120f8dd2c3..18b9d0ca063 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -109,27 +109,28 @@ prototypes: locking rules: All may block. - BKL s_lock s_umount -alloc_inode: no no no -destroy_inode: no -dirty_inode: no (must not sleep) -write_inode: no -drop_inode: no !!!inode_lock!!! -delete_inode: no -put_super: yes yes no -write_super: no yes read -sync_fs: no no read -freeze_fs: ? -unfreeze_fs: ? -statfs: no no no -remount_fs: yes yes maybe (see below) -clear_inode: no -umount_begin: yes no no -show_options: no (vfsmount->sem) -quota_read: no no no (see below) -quota_write: no no no (see below) - -->remount_fs() will have the s_umount lock if it's already mounted. + None have BKL + s_umount +alloc_inode: +destroy_inode: +dirty_inode: (must not sleep) +write_inode: +drop_inode: !!!inode_lock!!! +delete_inode: +put_super: write +write_super: read +sync_fs: read +freeze_fs: read +unfreeze_fs: read +statfs: no +remount_fs: maybe (see below) +clear_inode: +umount_begin: no +show_options: no (namespace_sem) +quota_read: no (see below) +quota_write: no (see below) + +->remount_fs() will have the s_umount exclusive lock if it's already mounted. When called from get_sb_single, it does NOT have the s_umount lock. ->quota_read() and ->quota_write() functions are both guaranteed to be the only ones operating on the quota file by the quota code (via @@ -187,7 +188,7 @@ readpages: no write_begin: no locks the page yes write_end: no yes, unlocks yes perform_write: no n/a yes -bmap: yes +bmap: no invalidatepage: no yes releasepage: no yes direct_IO: no |