VFS: move inode_lock into sync_sb_inodes

This patch makes 'sync_sb_inodes()' lock 'inode_lock', rather
than expect that the caller will do this.

This change was previously done by Hans Reiser <[email protected]>
and sat in the -mm tree.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>

Author: Hans Reiser

fs/fs-writeback.c

@@ -424,8 +424,6 @@ __writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
  * WB_SYNC_HOLD is a hack for sys_sync(): reattach the inode to sb->s_dirty so
  * that it can be located for waiting on in __writeback_single_inode().
  *
- * Called under inode_lock.
- *
  * If `bdi' is non-zero then we're being asked to writeback a specific queue.
  * This function assumes that the blockdev superblock's inodes are backed by
  * a variety of queues, so all inodes are searched.  For other superblocks,
@@ -446,6 +444,7 @@ sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 {
 	const unsigned long start = jiffies;	/* livelock avoidance */
 
+	spin_lock(&inode_lock);
 	if (!wbc->for_kupdate || list_empty(&sb->s_io))
 		queue_io(sb, wbc->older_than_this);
 
@@ -524,6 +523,7 @@ sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 		if (!list_empty(&sb->s_more_io))
 			wbc->more_io = 1;
 	}
+	spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
 	return;		/* Leave any unwritten inodes on s_io */
 }
 
@@ -565,11 +565,8 @@ writeback_inodes(struct writeback_control *wbc)
 			 * be unmounted by the time it is released.
 			 */
 			if (down_read_trylock(&sb->s_umount)) {
-				if (sb->s_root) {
-					spin_lock(&inode_lock);
+				if (sb->s_root)
 					sync_sb_inodes(sb, wbc);
-					spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
-				}
 				up_read(&sb->s_umount);
 			}
 			spin_lock(&sb_lock);
@@ -607,9 +604,7 @@ void sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
 			(inodes_stat.nr_inodes - inodes_stat.nr_unused) +
 			nr_dirty + nr_unstable;
 	wbc.nr_to_write += wbc.nr_to_write / 2;		/* Bit more for luck */
-	spin_lock(&inode_lock);
 	sync_sb_inodes(sb, &wbc);
-	spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
 }
 
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