Re: [PATCH 1/8] far: remove i_alloc_sem abuse

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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Add a new rw_semaphore to protect bmap against truncate.  Previous
>> i_alloc_sem was abused for this, but it's going away in this series.
>
> In FAT case, ->i_mutex was better. But, last time I saw, shmfs was using
> ->i_mutex to call ->bmap. So, this was chosen instead.
>
> I'm not checking current version yet though, if shmfs had change, we can
> use ->i_mutex.

It was swapfile. And unfortunately it doesn't have change.

> BTW, this patch looks good to me.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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