fsnotify: use a mutex instead of a spinlock to protect a groups mark list
Replaces the groups mark_lock spinlock with a mutex. Using a mutex instead
of a spinlock results in more flexibility (i.e it allows to sleep while the
lock is held).
Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
diff --git a/fs/notify/group.c b/fs/notify/group.c
index 354044c..1f73057 100644
--- a/fs/notify/group.c
+++ b/fs/notify/group.c
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
init_waitqueue_head(&group->notification_waitq);
group->max_events = UINT_MAX;
- spin_lock_init(&group->mark_lock);
+ mutex_init(&group->mark_mutex);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&group->marks_list);
group->ops = ops;