On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Frankly, I would very much prefer to have the same locking rules wherever > possible. The locking system is already overcomplicated and making its > analysis fs-dependent as well... <shudder> I do agree that it would be better if we avoid it. I was just trying to explain that the dentry locking is *not* enough, for the simple reason that it relies on upper-level non-dentry locking just to work. Your patch looks good, but whether it works I have no idea ;) Linus -- 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