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| author | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2010-09-18 15:09:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2010-10-05 11:02:04 +0200 |
| commit | b89f432133851a01c0d28822f11cbdcc15781a75 (patch) | |
| tree | a3e9ba638a9b746985148f4525335d360ec7da56 /fs/afs | |
| parent | 2e54eb96e2c801f33d95b5dade15212ac4d6c4a5 (diff) | |
| download | linux-b89f432133851a01c0d28822f11cbdcc15781a75.tar.gz | |
fs/locks.c: prepare for BKL removal
This prepares the removal of the big kernel lock from the file locking code. We still use the BKL as long as fs/lockd uses it and ceph might sleep, but we can flip the definition to a private spinlock as soon as that's done. All users outside of fs/lockd get converted to use lock_flocks() instead of lock_kernel() where appropriate. Based on an earlier patch to use a spinlock from Matthew Wilcox, who has attempted this a few times before, the earliest patch from over 10 years ago turned it into a semaphore, which ended up being slower than the BKL and was subsequently reverted. Someone should do some serious performance testing when this becomes a spinlock, since this has caused problems before. Using a spinlock should be at least as good as the BKL in theory, but who knows... Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/afs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/afs/flock.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/afs/flock.c b/fs/afs/flock.c index 0931bc1325eb..757d664575dd 100644 --- a/fs/afs/flock.c +++ b/fs/afs/flock.c @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. */ -#include <linux/smp_lock.h> #include "internal.h" #define AFS_LOCK_GRANTED 0 @@ -274,7 +273,7 @@ static int afs_do_setlk(struct file *file, struct file_lock *fl) type = (fl->fl_type == F_RDLCK) ? AFS_LOCK_READ : AFS_LOCK_WRITE; - lock_kernel(); + lock_flocks(); /* make sure we've got a callback on this file and that our view of the * data version is up to date */ @@ -421,7 +420,7 @@ given_lock: afs_vnode_fetch_status(vnode, NULL, key); error: - unlock_kernel(); + unlock_flocks(); _leave(" = %d", ret); return ret; |