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authorImran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com>2023-03-09 22:09:31 +1100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-03-29 12:23:45 +0200
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kernfs: Use a per-fs rwsem to protect per-fs list of kernfs_super_info.
Right now per-fs kernfs_rwsem protects list of kernfs_super_info instances for a kernfs_root. Since kernfs_rwsem is used to synchronize several other operations across kernfs and since most of these operations don't impact kernfs_super_info, we can use a separate per-fs rwsem to synchronize access to list of kernfs_super_info. This helps in reducing contention around kernfs_rwsem and also allows operations that change/access list of kernfs_super_info to proceed without contending for kernfs_rwsem. Signed-off-by: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230309110932.2889010-3-imran.f.khan@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/kernfs/dir.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/kernfs/dir.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
index 953b2717c60e..2cdb8516e528 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
@@ -944,6 +944,7 @@ struct kernfs_root *kernfs_create_root(struct kernfs_syscall_ops *scops,
idr_init(&root->ino_idr);
init_rwsem(&root->kernfs_rwsem);
init_rwsem(&root->kernfs_iattr_rwsem);
+ init_rwsem(&root->kernfs_supers_rwsem);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&root->supers);
/*