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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2008-07-25 19:45:32 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-26 12:00:06 -0700
commit19fd6231279be3c3bdd02ed99f9b0eb195978064 (patch)
treeee09121054262d73c551b57114acd855b82a7a82 /include/linux
parenta60637c85893e7191faaafa6a72e197c24386727 (diff)
mm: spinlock tree_lock
mapping->tree_lock has no read lockers. convert the lock from an rwlock to a spinlock. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 49d8eb7a71b..53d2edb709b 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ struct backing_dev_info;
struct address_space {
struct inode *host; /* owner: inode, block_device */
struct radix_tree_root page_tree; /* radix tree of all pages */
- rwlock_t tree_lock; /* and rwlock protecting it */
+ spinlock_t tree_lock; /* and lock protecting it */
unsigned int i_mmap_writable;/* count VM_SHARED mappings */
struct prio_tree_root i_mmap; /* tree of private and shared mappings */
struct list_head i_mmap_nonlinear;/*list VM_NONLINEAR mappings */