From bd5fe6c5eb9c548d7f07fe8f89a150bb6705e8e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:29:43 -0400 Subject: fs: kill i_alloc_sem i_alloc_sem is a rather special rw_semaphore. It's the last one that may be released by a non-owner, and it's write side is always mirrored by real exclusion. It's intended use it to wait for all pending direct I/O requests to finish before starting a truncate. Replace it with a hand-grown construct: - exclusion for truncates is already guaranteed by i_mutex, so it can simply fall way - the reader side is replaced by an i_dio_count member in struct inode that counts the number of pending direct I/O requests. Truncate can't proceed as long as it's non-zero - when i_dio_count reaches non-zero we wake up a pending truncate using wake_up_bit on a new bit in i_flags - new references to i_dio_count can't appear while we are waiting for it to read zero because the direct I/O count always needs i_mutex (or an equivalent like XFS's i_iolock) for starting a new operation. This scheme is much simpler, and saves the space of a spinlock_t and a struct list_head in struct inode (typically 160 bits on a non-debug 64-bit system). Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/ntfs/inode.c | 10 ++-------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/ntfs/inode.c') diff --git a/fs/ntfs/inode.c b/fs/ntfs/inode.c index c05d6dc..1371487 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/ntfs/inode.c @@ -2357,12 +2357,7 @@ static const char *es = " Leaving inconsistent metadata. Unmount and run " * * Returns 0 on success or -errno on error. * - * Called with ->i_mutex held. In all but one case ->i_alloc_sem is held for - * writing. The only case in the kernel where ->i_alloc_sem is not held is - * mm/filemap.c::generic_file_buffered_write() where vmtruncate() is called - * with the current i_size as the offset. The analogous place in NTFS is in - * fs/ntfs/file.c::ntfs_file_buffered_write() where we call vmtruncate() again - * without holding ->i_alloc_sem. + * Called with ->i_mutex held. */ int ntfs_truncate(struct inode *vi) { @@ -2887,8 +2882,7 @@ void ntfs_truncate_vfs(struct inode *vi) { * We also abort all changes of user, group, and mode as we do not implement * the NTFS ACLs yet. * - * Called with ->i_mutex held. For the ATTR_SIZE (i.e. ->truncate) case, also - * called with ->i_alloc_sem held for writing. + * Called with ->i_mutex held. */ int ntfs_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr) { -- cgit v1.1