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authorThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>2010-05-07 15:52:26 -0400
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2010-05-10 17:42:27 -0400
commitca0dbd86b12be9af7cda230890eb741d5cb8b624 (patch)
tree007bb05cf7032e81e97da4e704641aa15103e2f8 /Documentation/filesystems/Locking
parentce60d4d5d50a5454768faa522da98aa5f8070bd0 (diff)
doc: inode uses a mutex instead of a semaphore.
Replace the introduced i_sem by an i_mutex in the filesystem locking documentation. This was introduced [1] after all occurrences were already replaced in the same text [2]. However, the term "inode semaphore" has not been replaced then, and it's replaced now. [1] afddba49d18f346e5cc2938b6ed7c512db18ca68 [2] a7bc02f4f47fd0e7860c6589f0ad000d1476f7a3 Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
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@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ prototypes:
178locking rules: 178locking rules:
179 All except set_page_dirty may block 179 All except set_page_dirty may block
180 180
181 BKL PageLocked(page) i_sem 181 BKL PageLocked(page) i_mutex
182writepage: no yes, unlocks (see below) 182writepage: no yes, unlocks (see below)
183readpage: no yes, unlocks 183readpage: no yes, unlocks
184sync_page: no maybe 184sync_page: no maybe
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ check_flags: no
429implementations. If your fs is not using generic_file_llseek, you 429implementations. If your fs is not using generic_file_llseek, you
430need to acquire and release the appropriate locks in your ->llseek(). 430need to acquire and release the appropriate locks in your ->llseek().
431For many filesystems, it is probably safe to acquire the inode 431For many filesystems, it is probably safe to acquire the inode
432semaphore. Note some filesystems (i.e. remote ones) provide no 432mutex. Note some filesystems (i.e. remote ones) provide no
433protection for i_size so you will need to use the BKL. 433protection for i_size so you will need to use the BKL.
434 434
435Note: ext2_release() was *the* source of contention on fs-intensive 435Note: ext2_release() was *the* source of contention on fs-intensive