Re: [PATCH 1/4] VFS: Add VFS helper functions for setting up private namespaces

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On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:25:01PM -0700, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>  /* spinlock for vfsmount related operations, inplace of dcache_lock */
>  __cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SPINLOCK(vfsmount_lock);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfsmount_lock);

This is not mentioned in the patch description and also doesn't seem
to be used in the following patches.

Exporting it is a really bad idea anyway as it protects data structures
that should not be exposed to filesystems.

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