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Message-Id: <1244488987-32564-38-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu>
Date:	Mon,  8 Jun 2009 15:22:55 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Linux Kernel Developers List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 37/49] ext4: down i_data_sem only for read when walking tree for fiemap

Not sure why I put this in as down_write originally; all we are
doing is walking the tree, nothing will change under us and
concurrent reads should be no problem.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
---
 fs/ext4/extents.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index d04b779..d4e99e9 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -3312,10 +3312,10 @@ int ext4_fiemap(struct inode *inode, struct fiemap_extent_info *fieinfo,
 		 * Walk the extent tree gathering extent information.
 		 * ext4_ext_fiemap_cb will push extents back to user.
 		 */
-		down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
+		down_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
 		error = ext4_ext_walk_space(inode, start_blk, len_blks,
 					  ext4_ext_fiemap_cb, fieinfo);
-		up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
+		up_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
 	}
 
 	return error;
-- 
1.6.3.2.1.gb9f7d.dirty

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