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Waiman Long committed 1812997720a
dcache: get/release read lock in read_seqbegin_or_lock() & friend This patch modifies read_seqbegin_or_lock() and need_seqretry() to use newly introduced read_seqlock_excl() and read_sequnlock_excl() primitives so that they won't change the sequence number even if they fall back to take the lock. This is OK as no change to the protected data structure is being made. It will prevent one fallback to lock taking from cascading into a series of lock taking reducing performance because of the sequence number change. It will also allow other sequence readers to go forward while an exclusive reader lock is taken. This patch also updates some of the inaccurate comments in the code. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> To: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>