On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 03:23:04PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Now that inode state changes are protected by the inode->i_lock and > the inode LRU manipulations by the inode_lru_lock, we can remove the > inode_lock from prune_icache and the initial part of iput_final(). > > instead of using the inode_lock to protect the inode during > iput_final, use the inode->i_lock instead. This protects the inode > against new references being taken while we change the inode state > to I_FREEING, as well as preventing prune_icache from grabbing the > inode while we are manipulating it. Hence we no longer need the > i???ode_lock in iput_final prior to setting I_FREEING on the inode. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ... the hell? There's more such damage elsewhere in the thread; what's going on? -- 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
