From 250df6ed274d767da844a5d9f05720b804240197 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Chinner Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:23:36 +1100 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/buffer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/buffer.c') diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 2219a76e2caf..da666f3148f9 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -1144,7 +1144,7 @@ __getblk_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size) * inode list. * * mark_buffer_dirty() is atomic. It takes bh->b_page->mapping->private_lock, - * mapping->tree_lock and the global inode_lock. + * mapping->tree_lock and mapping->host->i_lock. */ void mark_buffer_dirty(struct buffer_head *bh) { -- cgit v1.2.3