From bd5fe6c5eb9c548d7f07fe8f89a150bb6705e8e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:29:43 -0400 Subject: fs: kill i_alloc_sem i_alloc_sem is a rather special rw_semaphore. It's the last one that may be released by a non-owner, and it's write side is always mirrored by real exclusion. It's intended use it to wait for all pending direct I/O requests to finish before starting a truncate. Replace it with a hand-grown construct: - exclusion for truncates is already guaranteed by i_mutex, so it can simply fall way - the reader side is replaced by an i_dio_count member in struct inode that counts the number of pending direct I/O requests. Truncate can't proceed as long as it's non-zero - when i_dio_count reaches non-zero we wake up a pending truncate using wake_up_bit on a new bit in i_flags - new references to i_dio_count can't appear while we are waiting for it to read zero because the direct I/O count always needs i_mutex (or an equivalent like XFS's i_iolock) for starting a new operation. This scheme is much simpler, and saves the space of a spinlock_t and a struct list_head in struct inode (typically 160 bits on a non-debug 64-bit system). Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- mm/rmap.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/rmap.c') diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c index 23295f65ae43..2540a39eea4a 100644 --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c @@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ * Lock ordering in mm: * * inode->i_mutex (while writing or truncating, not reading or faulting) - * inode->i_alloc_sem (vmtruncate_range) * mm->mmap_sem * page->flags PG_locked (lock_page) * mapping->i_mmap_mutex -- cgit v1.2.3