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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Patrick Farrell <paf@cray.com>
Cc: "Loïc Pefferkorn" <loic@loicp.eu>,
	"devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
	"Greg KH" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"gdonald@gmail.com" <gdonald@gmail.com>,
	"HPDD-discuss@ml01.01.org" <HPDD-discuss@ml01.01.org>
Subject: Re: [HPDD-discuss] [PATCH] staging: lustre: fix sparse warnings related to lock context imbalance
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 19:28:50 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141128162850.GJ4911@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DB0C8A206669AC40B1C4E52A8584A6F61496CCB5@CFWEX01.americas.cray.com>

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 03:45:24PM +0000, Patrick Farrell wrote:
> Dan,
> 
> I disagree about the change suggested here.  In this particular code,
> 'object_attr' is distinct from 'attr', as in a 'setattr' call on an
> inode.  'cl_object' is a distinct thing from an inode/file on disk,
> and specifying it is the objects attr is helpful in understanding
> there is not a direct relationship to 'attr' in the general filesystem
> sense.  (cl_object attrs are used in determining actual on disk
> attributes, but there is not a one-to-one correspondence.)
> 
> I am willing to be corrected, but that is my first feeling here.

I haven't looked at it deeply.  Loïc was suggesting that we need new
locking functions to deal with lustre's unwieldy naming schemes and I
think we should just fix the names...

We already have a cl_attr struct.  Is that different from what
we're locking here?  I don't think anyone will think this takes an inode
argument.

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-28 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-26 16:15 [PATCH] staging: lustre: fix sparse warnings related to lock context imbalance Loic Pefferkorn
2014-11-26 20:54 ` Greg KH
2014-11-27  5:30   ` Loïc Pefferkorn
2014-11-27 18:34   ` Loïc Pefferkorn
2014-11-28 10:00     ` Dan Carpenter
2014-11-28 15:45       ` [HPDD-discuss] " Patrick Farrell
2014-11-28 16:28         ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2014-11-28 22:22     ` Greg KH
2014-11-30 19:54       ` Loïc Pefferkorn

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