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authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>2011-03-22 22:23:40 +1100
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-03-24 21:16:32 -0400
commit55fa6091d83160ca772fc37cebae45d42695a708 (patch)
tree4df49f372032e30449e1a2dd64daf443e20b781c /fs/notify
parentf283c86afe6aa70b733d1ecebad5d9464943b774 (diff)
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fs: move i_sb_list out from under inode_lock
Protect the per-sb inode list with a new global lock inode_sb_list_lock and use it to protect the list manipulations and traversals. This lock replaces the inode_lock as the inodes on the list can be validity checked while holding the inode->i_lock and hence the inode_lock is no longer needed to protect the list. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/notify')
-rw-r--r--fs/notify/inode_mark.c20
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/inode_mark.c b/fs/notify/inode_mark.c
index 4dd53fb44124..fb3b3c5ef0ee 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inode_mark.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inode_mark.c
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@
#include <linux/fsnotify_backend.h>
#include "fsnotify.h"
+#include "../internal.h"
+
/*
* Recalculate the mask of events relevant to a given inode locked.
*/
@@ -237,15 +239,14 @@ out:
* fsnotify_unmount_inodes - an sb is unmounting. handle any watched inodes.
* @list: list of inodes being unmounted (sb->s_inodes)
*
- * Called with inode_lock held, protecting the unmounting super block's list
- * of inodes, and with iprune_mutex held, keeping shrink_icache_memory() at bay.
- * We temporarily drop inode_lock, however, and CAN block.
+ * Called during unmount with no locks held, so needs to be safe against
+ * concurrent modifiers. We temporarily drop inode_sb_list_lock and CAN block.
*/
void fsnotify_unmount_inodes(struct list_head *list)
{
struct inode *inode, *next_i, *need_iput = NULL;
- spin_lock(&inode_lock);
+ spin_lock(&inode_sb_list_lock);
list_for_each_entry_safe(inode, next_i, list, i_sb_list) {
struct inode *need_iput_tmp;
@@ -293,12 +294,11 @@ void fsnotify_unmount_inodes(struct list_head *list)
}
/*
- * We can safely drop inode_lock here because we hold
+ * We can safely drop inode_sb_list_lock here because we hold
* references on both inode and next_i. Also no new inodes
- * will be added since the umount has begun. Finally,
- * iprune_mutex keeps shrink_icache_memory() away.
+ * will be added since the umount has begun.
*/
- spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
+ spin_unlock(&inode_sb_list_lock);
if (need_iput_tmp)
iput(need_iput_tmp);
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ void fsnotify_unmount_inodes(struct list_head *list)
iput(inode);
- spin_lock(&inode_lock);
+ spin_lock(&inode_sb_list_lock);
}
- spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
+ spin_unlock(&inode_sb_list_lock);
}