On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We do not (and cannot) call dentry_kill() with rcu_read_lock held - it can
> trigger any amount of IO, for one thing. We can take it around the
> couple of places where do that spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock) (along with
> setting DCACHE_RCUACCESS) - that's what I'd been refering to.
Just the last spin_unlock() would be the case that matters, if the
spin_unlock() is done on something that could be freed immediately and
the lock protects and is inside the entity that gets freed.
> BTW, is there any convenient
> way to tell git commit --amend to update the commit date? Something
> like --date=now would be nice, but it isn't accepted...
--date="$(date)" works.
The "--date" thing doesn't take the nice "git approxidate" strings,
maybe it should. So you have to give it a "real" date.
Linus
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