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 <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index cf81baf..96c77b8 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -168,8 +168,7 @@
mutex_init(&inode->i_mutex);
lockdep_set_class(&inode->i_mutex, &sb->s_type->i_mutex_key);
- init_rwsem(&inode->i_alloc_sem);
- lockdep_set_class(&inode->i_alloc_sem, &sb->s_type->i_alloc_sem_key);
+ atomic_set(&inode->i_dio_count, 0);
mapping->a_ops = &empty_aops;
mapping->host = inode;