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authorMark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>2006-10-17 10:31:38 +0200
committerJens Axboe <axboe@nelson.home.kernel.dk>2006-10-19 20:53:08 +0200
commit62752ee198dca9209b7dee504763e51b11e9e0ca (patch)
tree5e340a4c690851dadc3a8aa395e4c0d14b4837eb /include
parentce9e3d9953c8cb67001719b5516da2928e956be4 (diff)
[PATCH] Take i_mutex in splice_from_pipe()
The splice_actor may be calling ->prepare_write() and ->commit_write(). We want i_mutex on the inode being written to before calling those so that we don't race i_size changes. The double locking behavior is done elsewhere in splice.c, and if we eventually want _nolock variants of generic_file_splice_write(), fs modules might have to replicate the nasty locking code. We introduce inode_double_lock() and inode_double_unlock() to consolidate the locking rules into one set of functions. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 661c7c57214..853a02f2393 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -623,6 +623,9 @@ enum inode_i_mutex_lock_class
I_MUTEX_QUOTA
};
+extern void inode_double_lock(struct inode *inode1, struct inode *inode2);
+extern void inode_double_unlock(struct inode *inode1, struct inode *inode2);
+
/*
* NOTE: in a 32bit arch with a preemptable kernel and
* an UP compile the i_size_read/write must be atomic