staging: lustre: fid: convert lcs_mutex to a spinlock
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 02:23:38 +0000 (13:23 +1100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:06:36 +0000 (15:06 +0100)
commitdaa5611c716a6dbd234c7ebe4ed2c05eeb96b538
tree504b39a915d6a2371e267f071503b1e284b12a41
parentef8e5dbbb09035a0c41aa47a328e6248702d4d2b
staging: lustre: fid: convert lcs_mutex to a spinlock

There is only one place where this lock is held
while the task might sleep - in
  ldebugfs_fid_space_seq_write()
while ldebugfs_fid_write_common() is called.

This call can easily be taken out of the locked region
by asking it to parse the user data into a local variable,
and then copying that variable into ->lcs_space while
holding the lock.

Note that ldebugfs_gid_write_common returns >0 on
success, so use that to gate updating ->lcs_space.

So make that change, and convert lcs_mutex to a spinlock
named lcs_lock.  spinlocks are slightly cheaper than mutexes
and using one makes is clear that the lock is only held for
a short time.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/fid/fid_request.c
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/fid/lproc_fid.c
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre_fid.h