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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kernfs.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernfs.h b/include/linux/kernfs.h index e21b2f7f4159..351a5101c862 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernfs.h +++ b/include/linux/kernfs.h @@ -76,20 +76,25 @@ struct kernfs_iattrs; * kernfs_open_file. * * kernfs_open_files are chained at kernfs_open_node->files, which is - * protected by kernfs_global_locks.open_file_mutex[i]. + * protected by kernfs_global_locks.node_mutex[i]. * * To reduce possible contention in sysfs access, arising due to single - * locks, use an array of locks (e.g. open_file_mutex) and use kernfs_node + * locks, use an array of locks (e.g. node_mutex) and use kernfs_node * object address as hash keys to get the index of these locks. * * Hashed mutexes are safe to use here because operations using these don't * rely on global exclusion. * + * The hashed mutex array protects per-node data: the kernfs_open_node for + * open file management, and kernfs_node xattr operations (necessary because + * multiple superblocks with different namespaces can share the same + * kernfs_node, making per-inode locking insufficient). + * * In future we intend to replace other global locks with hashed ones as well. * kernfs_global_locks acts as a holder for all such hash tables. */ struct kernfs_global_locks { - struct mutex open_file_mutex[NR_KERNFS_LOCKS]; + struct mutex node_mutex[NR_KERNFS_LOCKS]; }; enum kernfs_node_type { |