minor patch for 2.1.55 fs/inode.c

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Fri, 12 Sep 1997 17:24:53 -0400

The attached patch fixes a couple of minor inode problems. It adds a
wakeup after clearing I_LOCK following read_inode, and repeats the call
to sync_one in write_inode_now to cover the case of the inode being both
dirty and locked.

BTW, I'm still a little uneasy with clearing I_LOCK without the
spinlock, but I haven't come up with a definite problem. On some
architectures the x &= mask construct would take several instructions;
if I_LOCK were tested from interrupt contexts, could this be a problem?

Regards,
Bill