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Commit b835996f authored by Dipankar Sarma's avatar Dipankar Sarma Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] files: lock-free fd look-up



With the use of RCU in files structure, the look-up of files using fds can now
be lock-free.  The lookup is protected by rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock().
This patch changes the readers to use lock-free lookup.

Signed-off-by: default avatarManeesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRavikiran Thirumalai <kiran_th@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent ab2af1f5
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