From 250df6ed274d767da844a5d9f05720b804240197 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Chinner Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:23:36 +1100 Subject: fs: protect inode->i_state with inode->i_lock Protect inode state transitions and validity checks with the inode->i_lock. This enables us to make inode state transitions independently of the inode_lock and is the first step to peeling away the inode_lock from the code. This requires that __iget() is done atomically with i_state checks during list traversals so that we don't race with another thread marking the inode I_FREEING between the state check and grabbing the reference. Also remove the unlock_new_inode() memory barrier optimisation required to avoid taking the inode_lock when clearing I_NEW. Simplify the code by simply taking the inode->i_lock around the state change and wakeup. Because the wakeup is no longer tricky, remove the wake_up_inode() function and open code the wakeup where necessary. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- include/linux/fs.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 4dda076c24a1..ed6fdcc1484c 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1647,7 +1647,7 @@ struct super_operations { }; /* - * Inode state bits. Protected by inode_lock. + * Inode state bits. Protected by inode->i_lock * * Three bits determine the dirty state of the inode, I_DIRTY_SYNC, * I_DIRTY_DATASYNC and I_DIRTY_PAGES. -- cgit v1.2.2