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authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>2011-03-22 22:23:41 +1100
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-03-24 21:17:51 -0400
commita66979abad090b2765a6c6790c9fdeab996833f2 (patch)
treee48b2d0fac8f96456286a503aeeb952620234961 /fs/inode.c
parent55fa6091d83160ca772fc37cebae45d42695a708 (diff)
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 'fs/inode.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/inode.c12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 785b1ab23ff..239fdc08719 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
#include <linux/posix_acl.h>
#include <linux/ima.h>
#include <linux/cred.h>
+#include "internal.h"
/*
* inode locking rules.
@@ -36,6 +37,8 @@
* inode_lru, inode->i_lru
* inode_sb_list_lock protects:
* sb->s_inodes, inode->i_sb_list
+ * inode_wb_list_lock protects:
+ * bdi->wb.b_{dirty,io,more_io}, inode->i_wb_list
*
* Lock ordering:
* inode_lock
@@ -44,6 +47,9 @@
* inode_sb_list_lock
* inode->i_lock
* inode_lru_lock
+ *
+ * inode_wb_list_lock
+ * inode->i_lock
*/
/*
@@ -105,6 +111,7 @@ static struct hlist_head *inode_hashtable __read_mostly;
DEFINE_SPINLOCK(inode_lock);
__cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SPINLOCK(inode_sb_list_lock);
+__cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SPINLOCK(inode_wb_list_lock);
/*
* iprune_sem provides exclusion between the icache shrinking and the
@@ -483,10 +490,7 @@ static void evict(struct inode *inode)
BUG_ON(!(inode->i_state & I_FREEING));
BUG_ON(!list_empty(&inode->i_lru));
- spin_lock(&inode_lock);
- list_del_init(&inode->i_wb_list);
- spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
-
+ inode_wb_list_del(inode);
inode_sb_list_del(inode);
if (op->evict_inode) {