[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>
diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index 0bfc7af..e5953f3 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -2480,7 +2480,7 @@
}
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 @@
break;
}
}
- spin_unlock(&p->files->file_lock);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
}
task_unlock(p);
} while_each_task_pid(session, PIDTYPE_SID, p);