On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 03:12:46PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 03:09:23PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:03:01AM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote: > > > > sb is an active reference > > > > > > > > > > I don't understand how this is an active reference? We are talking about > > > s_active right? > > > > It's an opened file, for crying out loud! If there is anything that makes > > sure that superblock will stay alive, that is it... Grr... Make that "is alive and can be aliased without any problems, so atomic_inc(sb->s_active) in caller would do just fine." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
