From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch 06/10] affs: Convert semaphores to mutexes
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:25:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100129222541.GB31305@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100129203613.591137914@linutronix.de>
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 08:38:55PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> These semaphores are plain mutexes. Convert them to struct mutex.
>
> Map affs_[un]lock_dir() to affs_[un]lock_ext() instead of the "#define
> i_hash_lock i_ext_lock" magic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Umm... I'm not ready to sign off on that one without serious analysis;
there might be dragons.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-29 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-29 20:38 [patch 00/10] semaphore to mutex conversions Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 20:38 ` [patch 01/10] smbfs: Convert server->sem to mutex Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 22:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-29 20:38 ` [patch 02/10] hpfs: Convert sbi->hpfs_creation_de " Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 22:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-29 20:38 ` [patch 03/10] hpfsplus: Convert tree_lock " Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 22:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-29 20:38 ` [patch 04/10] hfs: " Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 22:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-29 20:38 ` [patch 05/10] cifs: convert semaphore " Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 22:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-29 20:38 ` [patch 06/10] affs: Convert semaphores to mutexes Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 22:25 ` Al Viro [this message]
2010-01-29 22:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-29 23:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 23:41 ` Al Viro
2010-01-29 20:38 ` [patch 07/10] usb: gadgetfs: Convert semaphore to mutex Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 21:14 ` Greg KH
2010-01-29 21:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 22:07 ` Greg KH
2010-01-29 23:04 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-30 5:27 ` Greg KH
2010-01-29 20:39 ` [patch 08/10] drivers/base: Convert dev->sem " Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 21:13 ` Greg KH
2010-01-29 21:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-30 5:26 ` Greg KH
2010-01-29 20:39 ` [patch 09/10] block: drbd: Convert semaphore " Thomas Gleixner
2010-01-29 20:39 ` [patch 10/10] hwmon: s3c-hwmon: " Thomas Gleixner
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