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authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>2011-03-22 22:23:41 +1100
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-03-24 21:17:51 -0400
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treee48b2d0fac8f96456286a503aeeb952620234961 /mm/rmap.c
parent55fa6091d83160ca772fc37cebae45d42695a708 (diff)
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fs: move i_wb_list out from under inode_lock
Protect the inode writeback list with a new global lock inode_wb_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 'mm/rmap.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/rmap.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 7dada04..8da044a 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -31,12 +31,12 @@
* swap_lock (in swap_duplicate, swap_info_get)
* 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)
+ * inode_wb_list_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,
- * within inode_lock in __sync_single_inode)
+ * within inode_wb_list_lock in __sync_single_inode)
*
* (code doesn't rely on that order so it could be switched around)
* ->tasklist_lock
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