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| author | Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de> | 2011-06-14 17:29:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2012-12-11 13:29:46 -0500 |
| commit | 986ab09807ca9454c3f54aae4db7e1bb00daeed3 (patch) | |
| tree | d6b76b03624a2d95a73ba88d990cd5210ab9eb20 /fs/notify/group.c | |
| parent | 6dfbd149946c22c2e2886d6b560def78630c8387 (diff) | |
fsnotify: use a mutex instead of a spinlock to protect a groups mark list
Replaces the groups mark_lock spinlock with a mutex. Using a mutex instead
of a spinlock results in more flexibility (i.e it allows to sleep while the
lock is held).
Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/notify/group.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/notify/group.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/group.c b/fs/notify/group.c index 354044c47e2..1f7305711fc 100644 --- a/fs/notify/group.c +++ b/fs/notify/group.c @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ struct fsnotify_group *fsnotify_alloc_group(const struct fsnotify_ops *ops) init_waitqueue_head(&group->notification_waitq); group->max_events = UINT_MAX; - spin_lock_init(&group->mark_lock); + mutex_init(&group->mark_mutex); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&group->marks_list); group->ops = ops; |