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authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>2011-03-22 14:23:41 +0300
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-03-25 04:17:51 +0300
commita66979abad090b2765a6c6790c9fdeab996833f2 (patch)
treee48b2d0fac8f96456286a503aeeb952620234961 /include/linux/writeback.h
parent55fa6091d83160ca772fc37cebae45d42695a708 (diff)
downloadlinux-a66979abad090b2765a6c6790c9fdeab996833f2.tar.xz
fs: move i_wb_list out from under inode_lock
Protect the inode writeback list with a new global lock inode_wb_list_lock and use it to protect the list manipulations and traversals. This lock replaces the inode_lock as the inodes on the list can be validity checked while holding the inode->i_lock and hence the inode_lock is no longer needed to protect the list. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index 0ead399e08b5..3f5fee718329 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
struct backing_dev_info;
extern spinlock_t inode_lock;
+extern spinlock_t inode_wb_list_lock;
/*
* fs/fs-writeback.c