[PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem

This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your
luck with it might be different.

Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

(finished the conversion)

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
index de402fa915f..e38d6338a20 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
@@ -86,9 +86,9 @@ int sysfs_create_link(struct kobject * kobj, struct kobject * target, const char
 
         BUG_ON(!kobj || !kobj->dentry || !name);
 
-        down(&dentry->d_inode->i_sem);
+        mutex_lock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
         error = sysfs_add_link(dentry, name, target);
-        up(&dentry->d_inode->i_sem);
+        mutex_unlock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
         return error;
 }
 
@@ -177,4 +177,3 @@ struct inode_operations sysfs_symlink_inode_operations = {
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_create_link);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_remove_link);
-