On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 05:40:38AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > 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? vim utf-8 multibyte support that is causing these characters to be created. e.g. e<backspace>' results in é. sometimes the resultant character looks almost identical and so I didn't notice. I haven't found the magic recipe to turn this off (maxcombine=0 doesn't seem to stop it) or change the special compose sequence, so I'll keep looking. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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