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authorLouis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>2008-06-16 19:00:58 +0200
committerMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>2008-07-14 13:57:15 -0700
commit6f61076406251626be39651d114fac412b1e0c39 (patch)
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configfs: Introduce configfs_dirent_lock
This patch introduces configfs_dirent_lock spinlock to protect configfs_dirent traversals against linkage mutations (add/del/move). This will allow configfs_detach_prep() to avoid locking i_mutexes. Locking rules for configfs_dirent linkage mutations are the same plus the requirement of taking configfs_dirent_lock. For configfs_dirent walking, one can either take appropriate i_mutex as before, or take configfs_dirent_lock. The spinlock could actually be a mutex, but the critical sections are either O(1) or should not be too long (default groups walking in last patch). ChangeLog: - Clarify the comment on configfs_dirent_lock usage - Move sd->s_element init before linking the new dirent - In lseek(), do not release configfs_dirent_lock before the dirent is relinked. Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/configfs/symlink.c')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/configfs/symlink.c b/fs/configfs/symlink.c
index 2a731ef5f305..676c84c416da 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/configfs/symlink.c
@@ -169,7 +169,9 @@ int configfs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
parent_item = configfs_get_config_item(dentry->d_parent);
type = parent_item->ci_type;
+ spin_lock(&configfs_dirent_lock);
list_del_init(&sd->s_sibling);
+ spin_unlock(&configfs_dirent_lock);
configfs_drop_dentry(sd, dentry->d_parent);
dput(dentry);
configfs_put(sd);