On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 03:35:10AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Thanks. > > I will cook up a proper incremental patch after I get some sleep. Stephen > it appears those two lines you have commented out are actually unnecessary. > > We have > deactivate_super > kill_sb aka sysfs_kill_sb > kill_anon_super > generic_shutdown_super > sb_lock > list_del(sb->s_instances) > sb_unlock > kfree(info) > > Nothing generic stomps on s_fs_info. > > Which means that if I find a superblock on sb->s_instances sb->s_fs_info > still points to a valid sysfs_super_info. Except that sb_lock is going away next cycle. There are very few users left outside of fs/super.c and I'd much prefer it to become static. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
