Re: [PATCH 00/10] locks/nfsd: internal lease API overhaul

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On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 09:43:01PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> >  - add a return value to lm_break so that the lock manager can tell the
> >    core code "you can delete this lease right now".  That gets rid of
> >    the games with the timeout which require all kinds of race avoidance
> >    code in the users.
> > 
> 
> I'm not sure I understand what you're suggesting here. Isn't it just as
> simple to have lm_break call lease_modify to just remove the lease?

Unfortunately it's not.  lm_break gets a pointer to the file_lock,
and lease_modify needs a pointer to the list position of the file_lock.
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