xfs: introduce xfs_rw_lock() helpers for locking the inode
We need to obtain the i_mutex, i_iolock and i_ilock during the read and write paths. Add a set of wrapper functions to neatly encapsulate the lock ordering and shared/exclusive semantics to make the locking easier to follow and get right. Note that this changes some of the exclusive locking serialisation in that serialisation will occur against the i_mutex instead of the XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL. This does not change any behaviour, and it is arguably more efficient to use the mutex for such serialisation than the rw_sem. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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