[PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem
This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your
luck with it might be different.
Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
(finished the conversion)
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/fs/ext2/ext2.h b/fs/ext2/ext2.h
index e977f85..00de0a7 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/ext2.h
+++ b/fs/ext2/ext2.h
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR
/*
* Extended attributes can be read independently of the main file
- * data. Taking i_sem even when reading would cause contention
+ * data. Taking i_mutex even when reading would cause contention
* between readers of EAs and writers of regular file data, so
* instead we synchronize on xattr_sem when reading or changing
* EAs.
