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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-09 12:54:17 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-09 12:54:17 -0700
commit9a9136e270af14da506f66bcafcc506b86a86498 (patch)
treeb4d0a6877d92635134b7a944d0032fbc43227fd2 /Documentation/filesystems/Locking
parent3960208f9ca0cf6bdb31c21c59ac0526303f8b34 (diff)
parent7bb2acb76e8168ca5d0bde5a5a56585a11b3525a (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits) sound: convert "sound" subdirectory to UTF-8 MAINTAINERS: Add cxacru website/mailing list include files: convert "include" subdirectory to UTF-8 general: convert "kernel" subdirectory to UTF-8 documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8 Convert the toplevel files CREDITS and MAINTAINERS to UTF-8. remove broken URLs from net drivers' output Magic number prefix consistency change to Documentation/magic-number.txt trivial: s/i_sem /i_mutex/ fix file specification in comments drivers/base/platform.c: fix small typo in doc misc doc and kconfig typos Remove obsolete fat_cvf help text Fix occurrences of "the the " Fix minor typoes in kernel/module.c Kconfig: Remove reference to external mqueue library Kconfig: A couple of grammatical fixes in arch/i386/Kconfig Correct comments in genrtc.c to refer to correct /proc file. Fix more "deprecated" spellos. Fix "deprecated" typoes. ... Fix trivial comment conflict in kernel/relay.c.
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 59c14159cc4..d866551be03 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ ata *);
locking rules:
all may block, none have BKL
- i_sem(inode)
+ i_mutex(inode)
lookup: yes
create: yes
link: yes (both)
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ setxattr: yes
getxattr: no
listxattr: no
removexattr: yes
- Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_sem on
+ Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on
victim.
cross-directory ->rename() has (per-superblock) ->s_vfs_rename_sem.
->truncate() is never called directly - it's a callback, not a
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ doesn't take the BKL.
->read on directories probably must go away - we should just enforce -EISDIR
in sys_read() and friends.
-->fsync() has i_sem on inode.
+->fsync() has i_mutex on inode.
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