On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:13 PM, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Milosz Tanski <milosz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Is it as simple as stick a mutex at the top of the >> __fscache_check_consistency function before we try to find the object? > > You can lock a mutex in a function, but where are you actually going to place > the mutex struct? And what other code is going to take it? To do this, you'd > have to place the mutex struct in fscache_cookie. The problem is that you > have to protect the pointer from fscache_cookie to fscache_object - so placing > the mutex in fscache_object doesn't help. David, I meant lock cookie->lock inside of __fscache_check_consistency in the beginning of the function. I don't see the need to push this into the netfs code. - Milosz -- 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
