Re: [PATCH 3/8] ext3: remove lock/unlock super

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On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 06:39:04PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 16-08-12 12:00:26, Marco Stornelli wrote:
> > From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Replaced lock and unlock super with a new fs mutex s_lock.
>   Hum, is the lock needed at all? Remount & unfreeze both run with s_umount
> held for writing. Thus we already have exclusion between these two calls.
> The same seems to hold for ext4 BTW.

Agreed, it's not clear lock_super() is needed at all for ext4 at this
point.

	     	       		       	      - Ted
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