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authorArtem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>2014-06-29 16:55:02 +0300
committerArtem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>2014-07-19 09:53:52 +0300
commit07e19dff63e3d5d6500d831e36554ac9b1b0560e (patch)
treee921a551f3f7aa3b38fa253829efb735e2421fbb
parent39274a1e8dd18d47e7ba76a90adc384f14f20a4f (diff)
downloadlinux-07e19dff63e3d5d6500d831e36554ac9b1b0560e.tar.bz2
UBIFS: remove mst_mutex
The 'mst_mutex' is not needed since because 'ubifs_write_master()' is only called on the mount path and commit path. The mount path is sequential and there is no parallelism, and the commit path is also serialized - there is only one commit going on at a time. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/commit.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/master.c7
-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/super.c1
-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/ubifs.h2
4 files changed, 3 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/commit.c b/fs/ubifs/commit.c
index ff8229340cd5..aa13ad053b14 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/commit.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/commit.c
@@ -174,7 +174,6 @@ static int do_commit(struct ubifs_info *c)
if (err)
goto out;
- mutex_lock(&c->mst_mutex);
c->mst_node->cmt_no = cpu_to_le64(c->cmt_no);
c->mst_node->log_lnum = cpu_to_le32(new_ltail_lnum);
c->mst_node->root_lnum = cpu_to_le32(zroot.lnum);
@@ -204,7 +203,6 @@ static int do_commit(struct ubifs_info *c)
else
c->mst_node->flags &= ~cpu_to_le32(UBIFS_MST_NO_ORPHS);
err = ubifs_write_master(c);
- mutex_unlock(&c->mst_mutex);
if (err)
goto out;
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/master.c b/fs/ubifs/master.c
index ab83ace9910a..1a4bb9e8b3b8 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/master.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/master.c
@@ -352,10 +352,9 @@ int ubifs_read_master(struct ubifs_info *c)
* ubifs_write_master - write master node.
* @c: UBIFS file-system description object
*
- * This function writes the master node. The caller has to take the
- * @c->mst_mutex lock before calling this function. Returns zero in case of
- * success and a negative error code in case of failure. The master node is
- * written twice to enable recovery.
+ * This function writes the master node. Returns zero in case of success and a
+ * negative error code in case of failure. The master node is written twice to
+ * enable recovery.
*/
int ubifs_write_master(struct ubifs_info *c)
{
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/super.c b/fs/ubifs/super.c
index bed5ebfb7c71..106bf20629ce 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c
@@ -1963,7 +1963,6 @@ static struct ubifs_info *alloc_ubifs_info(struct ubi_volume_desc *ubi)
mutex_init(&c->lp_mutex);
mutex_init(&c->tnc_mutex);
mutex_init(&c->log_mutex);
- mutex_init(&c->mst_mutex);
mutex_init(&c->umount_mutex);
mutex_init(&c->bu_mutex);
mutex_init(&c->write_reserve_mutex);
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h b/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h
index 977a01bf1720..c4fe900c67ab 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h
+++ b/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h
@@ -1049,7 +1049,6 @@ struct ubifs_debug_info;
*
* @mst_node: master node
* @mst_offs: offset of valid master node
- * @mst_mutex: protects the master node area, @mst_node, and @mst_offs
*
* @max_bu_buf_len: maximum bulk-read buffer length
* @bu_mutex: protects the pre-allocated bulk-read buffer and @c->bu
@@ -1290,7 +1289,6 @@ struct ubifs_info {
struct ubifs_mst_node *mst_node;
int mst_offs;
- struct mutex mst_mutex;
int max_bu_buf_len;
struct mutex bu_mutex;