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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2016-10-08 02:56:52 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-08 04:46:26 +0300
commitc21dbe20f606219fe54faf555b7bc5565487c58f (patch)
tree91e57fe4aad1f1358f099521b570d9daf7b6a758 /fs/notify/inotify
parent1404ff3cc3a14cb1fe8535e30b87d20da9513767 (diff)
downloadlinux-c21dbe20f606219fe54faf555b7bc5565487c58f.tar.xz
fsnotify: convert notification_mutex to a spinlock
notification_mutex is used to protect the list of pending events. As such there's no reason to use a sleeping lock for it. Convert it to a spinlock. [jack@suse.cz: fixed version] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474031567-1831-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473797711-14111-5-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/notify/inotify')
-rw-r--r--fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
index b8d08d0d0a4d..69d1ea3d292a 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
@@ -115,10 +115,10 @@ static unsigned int inotify_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
int ret = 0;
poll_wait(file, &group->notification_waitq, wait);
- mutex_lock(&group->notification_mutex);
+ spin_lock(&group->notification_lock);
if (!fsnotify_notify_queue_is_empty(group))
ret = POLLIN | POLLRDNORM;
- mutex_unlock(&group->notification_mutex);
+ spin_unlock(&group->notification_lock);
return ret;
}
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ static int round_event_name_len(struct fsnotify_event *fsn_event)
* enough to fit in "count". Return an error pointer if
* not large enough.
*
- * Called with the group->notification_mutex held.
+ * Called with the group->notification_lock held.
*/
static struct fsnotify_event *get_one_event(struct fsnotify_group *group,
size_t count)
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ static struct fsnotify_event *get_one_event(struct fsnotify_group *group,
if (event_size > count)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
- /* held the notification_mutex the whole time, so this is the
+ /* held the notification_lock the whole time, so this is the
* same event we peeked above */
fsnotify_remove_first_event(group);
@@ -234,9 +234,9 @@ static ssize_t inotify_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
add_wait_queue(&group->notification_waitq, &wait);
while (1) {
- mutex_lock(&group->notification_mutex);
+ spin_lock(&group->notification_lock);
kevent = get_one_event(group, count);
- mutex_unlock(&group->notification_mutex);
+ spin_unlock(&group->notification_lock);
pr_debug("%s: group=%p kevent=%p\n", __func__, group, kevent);
@@ -300,13 +300,13 @@ static long inotify_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
switch (cmd) {
case FIONREAD:
- mutex_lock(&group->notification_mutex);
+ spin_lock(&group->notification_lock);
list_for_each_entry(fsn_event, &group->notification_list,
list) {
send_len += sizeof(struct inotify_event);
send_len += round_event_name_len(fsn_event);
}
- mutex_unlock(&group->notification_mutex);
+ spin_unlock(&group->notification_lock);
ret = put_user(send_len, (int __user *) p);
break;
}