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| author | Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> | 2011-03-22 22:23:36 +1100 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2011-03-24 21:16:31 -0400 |
| commit | 250df6ed274d767da844a5d9f05720b804240197 (patch) | |
| tree | b74f49a86c4451d9e3e82f90e3f791163025be21 /include/linux/fs.h | |
| parent | 3dc8fe4dca9cd3e4aa828ed36451e2bcfd2350da (diff) | |
fs: protect inode->i_state with inode->i_lock
Protect inode state transitions and validity checks with the
inode->i_lock. This enables us to make inode state transitions
independently of the inode_lock and is the first step to peeling
away the inode_lock from the code.
This requires that __iget() is done atomically with i_state checks
during list traversals so that we don't race with another thread
marking the inode I_FREEING between the state check and grabbing the
reference.
Also remove the unlock_new_inode() memory barrier optimisation
required to avoid taking the inode_lock when clearing I_NEW.
Simplify the code by simply taking the inode->i_lock around the
state change and wakeup. Because the wakeup is no longer tricky,
remove the wake_up_inode() function and open code the wakeup where
necessary.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 4dda076c24a..ed6fdcc1484 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1647,7 +1647,7 @@ struct super_operations { }; /* - * Inode state bits. Protected by inode_lock. + * Inode state bits. Protected by inode->i_lock * * Three bits determine the dirty state of the inode, I_DIRTY_SYNC, * I_DIRTY_DATASYNC and I_DIRTY_PAGES. |