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| author | Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> | 2011-03-22 12:23:36 +0100 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2011-03-25 02:16:31 +0100 |
| commit | 250df6ed274d767da844a5d9f05720b804240197 (patch) | |
| tree | b74f49a86c4451d9e3e82f90e3f791163025be21 /mm/rmap.c | |
| parent | autofs4: Do not potentially dereference NULL pointer returned by fget() in au... (diff) | |
| download | linux-250df6ed274d767da844a5d9f05720b804240197.tar.xz linux-250df6ed274d767da844a5d9f05720b804240197.zip | |
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 '')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/rmap.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c index 4a8e99a0fb97..7dada0456448 100644 --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ * 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) * 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, |