| Date | Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:25:58 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [Patch RFC 24/37] xfs: semaphore cleanup |
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On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 08:19:03AM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > bp->b_sema claims to be a mutex, but it is a semaphore with non > obvious semantics. Make it a real semaphore.
It is a binary mutex in the classical CS sense, just not unlocked by the same thread as expected by the Linux mutexes..
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