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Former logic of ocfs2_file_aio_write() was a bit stricky to unlock the rw_lock and i_alloc_sem, by using some private bits in struct 'iocb' to communite with ocfs2_dio_end_io(), it did work before we introduce the patch of supporting 'coherency=full,buffered' option, since rw_lock and i_alloc_sem were never acquired both at the same time, no mattar we doing buffered or direct IO or

i_alloc_sem has always been a bit of an odd "lock". It''s the only remaining rw_semaphore that can be released by a different thread than the one that locked it, and it''s use case in the core direct I/O code is more like a counter given that the writers already have external serialization. This series removes it in favour of a simpler counter scheme, thus getting rid