[JFFS2] Reduce time for which erase_free_sem is held during erase.
With current desing erase_free_sem is locked every time the flash block is being erased. For NOR flashes - ~1 second is needed to erase single flash block. In the worst case scenario erase_free_sem may be locked for a couple of seconds when the number of blocks is being erased (e.g. after large file was removed). When erase_free_sem is locked all read/write operations for given JFFS2 partition are locked too - in effect from time to time access to the JFFS2 partition is locked for a number of seconds. This fix makes critical section in flash erasing procedure shorter - now erase_free_sem is locked around erase_completion_lock spinlock only. Originally from Radoslaw Bisewski Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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