On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:20:43AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > Oh, NAK that - hit send too soon. I forgot - they're are done that > way because they are under the inode_lock, and iref(), at this point > in the series, takes the inode_lock. So while it looks weird, it has > to stay that way otherwise it deadlocks..... Sounds fine anyway. I was just wondering why it was done, and the later extension of the i_lock coverage is reason enough anyway. -- 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