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

This patch converts the superblock-lock semaphore to a mutex, affecting
lock_super()/unlock_super(). Tested on ext3 and XFS.

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

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 01654b218e42..92ae3e2067b0 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ struct super_block {
         unsigned long           s_magic;
         struct dentry           *s_root;
         struct rw_semaphore     s_umount;
-        struct semaphore        s_lock;
+        struct mutex            s_lock;
         int                     s_count;
         int                     s_syncing;
         int                     s_need_sync_fs;
@@ -893,13 +893,13 @@ static inline int has_fs_excl(void)
 static inline void lock_super(struct super_block * sb)
 {
         get_fs_excl();
-        down(&sb->s_lock);
+        mutex_lock(&sb->s_lock);
 }
 
 static inline void unlock_super(struct super_block * sb)
 {
         put_fs_excl();
-        up(&sb->s_lock);
+        mutex_unlock(&sb->s_lock);
 }
 
 /*