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From: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/14] cifs: convert GlobalSMBSeslock from a rwlock to
 regular spinlock
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:00:29 +0530
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On 10/04/2010 11:22 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> To prevent races we need to be able to do an atomic_dec_and_lock with
> it, and that won't work with a rwlock.

It's not clear to me where a potential race window is. Could you please
elaborate?


Thanks,

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Suresh Jayaraman