Miklos Szeredi wrote:
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 18:07 +0800, Amerigo Wang wrote:
Andrew Morton wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 01:35:30 -0400
Amerigo Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
file_update_time() should be called with i_mutex held,
move it before mutex_unlock().
Why do you believe that file_update_time() needs i_mutex?
file_update_time() modifies inode, no? :)
So does touch_atime(), yet neither needs i_mutex.
Yes?
Then how the inode is protected when file_update_time() modifies
it?
Thanks.
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