On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:50:17AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > npiggin@xxxxxxx writes: > > > Protect d_subdirs and d_child with d_lock, except in filesystems that aren't > > using dcache_lock for these anyway (eg. using i_mutex). > > Different locking for different file systems seems a bit confusing. > Could the be unified? Yes well it is a bit misleading. It should always be modified under spinlocks, but some filesystems are using i_mutex for read access, which should be fine (and not require knowledge of any other code). -- 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
