Rename struct file->f_ep_lock

This lock moves out of the CONFIG_EPOLL ifdef and becomes f_lock.  For now,
epoll remains the only user, but a future patch will use it to protect
f_flags as well.

Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

fs/eventpoll.c

@@ -417,10 +417,10 @@ static int ep_remove(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epitem *epi)
 	ep_unregister_pollwait(ep, epi);
 
 	/* Remove the current item from the list of epoll hooks */
-	spin_lock(&file->f_ep_lock);
+	spin_lock(&file->f_lock);
 	if (ep_is_linked(&epi->fllink))
 		list_del_init(&epi->fllink);
-	spin_unlock(&file->f_ep_lock);
+	spin_unlock(&file->f_lock);
 
 	rb_erase(&epi->rbn, &ep->rbr);
 
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ void eventpoll_release_file(struct file *file)
 	struct epitem *epi;
 
 	/*
-	 * We don't want to get "file->f_ep_lock" because it is not
+	 * We don't want to get "file->f_lock" because it is not
 	 * necessary. It is not necessary because we're in the "struct file"
 	 * cleanup path, and this means that noone is using this file anymore.
 	 * So, for example, epoll_ctl() cannot hit here sicne if we reach this
@@ -547,6 +547,8 @@ void eventpoll_release_file(struct file *file)
 	 * will correctly serialize the operation. We do need to acquire
 	 * "ep->mtx" after "epmutex" because ep_remove() requires it when called
 	 * from anywhere but ep_free().
+	 *
+	 * Besides, ep_remove() acquires the lock, so we can't hold it here.
 	 */
 	mutex_lock(&epmutex);
 
@@ -785,9 +787,9 @@ static int ep_insert(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epoll_event *event,
 		goto error_unregister;
 
 	/* Add the current item to the list of active epoll hook for this file */
-	spin_lock(&tfile->f_ep_lock);
+	spin_lock(&tfile->f_lock);
 	list_add_tail(&epi->fllink, &tfile->f_ep_links);
-	spin_unlock(&tfile->f_ep_lock);
+	spin_unlock(&tfile->f_lock);
 
 	/*
 	 * Add the current item to the RB tree. All RB tree operations are

fs/file_table.c

@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ struct file *get_empty_filp(void)
 	atomic_long_set(&f->f_count, 1);
 	rwlock_init(&f->f_owner.lock);
 	f->f_cred = get_cred(cred);
+	spin_lock_init(&f->f_lock);
 	eventpoll_init_file(f);
 	/* f->f_version: 0 */
 	return f;

include/linux/eventpoll.h

@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ struct file;
 static inline void eventpoll_init_file(struct file *file)
 {
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&file->f_ep_links);
-	spin_lock_init(&file->f_ep_lock);
 }
 
 

include/linux/fs.h

@@ -848,6 +848,7 @@ struct file {
 #define f_dentry	f_path.dentry
 #define f_vfsmnt	f_path.mnt
 	const struct file_operations	*f_op;
+	spinlock_t		f_lock;  /* f_ep_links */
 	atomic_long_t		f_count;
 	unsigned int 		f_flags;
 	fmode_t			f_mode;
@@ -866,7 +867,6 @@ struct file {
 #ifdef CONFIG_EPOLL
 	/* Used by fs/eventpoll.c to link all the hooks to this file */
 	struct list_head	f_ep_links;
-	spinlock_t		f_ep_lock;
 #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_EPOLL */
 	struct address_space	*f_mapping;
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_WRITECOUNT