[PATCH] shmem: remove info->sem
Between inode->i_sem and info->lock comes info->sem; but it doesn't guard thoroughly against the difficult races (truncate during read), and serializes reads from tmpfs unlike other filesystems. I'd prefer to work with just i_sem and info->lock, backtracking when necessary (when another task allocates block or metablock at the same time). (I am not satisfied with the locked setting of next_index at the start of shmem_getpage_locked: it's one lock hold too many, and it doesn't really fix races against truncate better than before: another patch in a later batch will resolve that.)
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