[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, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/jffs2_fs_i.h b/include/linux/jffs2_fs_i.h
index ef85ab56302b..ad565bf9dcc1 100644
--- a/include/linux/jffs2_fs_i.h
+++ b/include/linux/jffs2_fs_i.h
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@
 #include <asm/semaphore.h>
 
 struct jffs2_inode_info {
-        /* We need an internal semaphore similar to inode->i_sem.
+        /* We need an internal mutex similar to inode->i_mutex.
            Unfortunately, we can't used the existing one, because
            either the GC would deadlock, or we'd have to release it
            before letting GC proceed. Or we'd have to put ugliness
-           into the GC code so it didn't attempt to obtain the i_sem
+           into the GC code so it didn't attempt to obtain the i_mutex
            for the inode(s) which are already locked */
         struct semaphore sem;