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authorDipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>2005-09-09 13:04:14 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-09-09 13:57:55 -0700
commitb835996f628eadb55c5fb222ba46fe9395bf73c7 (patch)
treed63d80585d197e1ffc299af4a0034049790fb197 /drivers
parentab2af1f5005069321c5d130f09cce577b03f43ef (diff)
[PATCH] files: lock-free fd look-up
With the use of RCU in files structure, the look-up of files using fds can now be lock-free. The lookup is protected by rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock(). This patch changes the readers to use lock-free lookup. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran_th@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/tty_io.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index 0bfc7af6891..e5953f3433f 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -2480,7 +2480,7 @@ static void __do_SAK(void *arg)
}
task_lock(p);
if (p->files) {
- spin_lock(&p->files->file_lock);
+ rcu_read_lock();
fdt = files_fdtable(p->files);
for (i=0; i < fdt->max_fds; i++) {
filp = fcheck_files(p->files, i);
@@ -2495,7 +2495,7 @@ static void __do_SAK(void *arg)
break;
}
}
- spin_unlock(&p->files->file_lock);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
}
task_unlock(p);
} while_each_task_pid(session, PIDTYPE_SID, p);