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From: Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com>,
	Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS: Stop sillyname renames and unmounts from racing
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 00:15:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071106051532.GA5397@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071105210636.2fc72e14.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:06:36PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Any objections to exporting the inode_lock spin lock?
> > If so, how should modules _safely_ access the s_inode list?

> That's going to make hch unhappy.

That's going to make me just as unhappy, especially since it's pointless;
instead of the entire sorry mess we should just bump sb->s_active to pin
the superblock down (we know that it's active at that point, so it's just
an atomic_inc(); no games with locking, etc., are needed) and call
deactivate_super() on the way out.  And deactivate_super() is exported
already.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-06  5:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-03 11:09 [PATCH] NFS: Stop sillyname renames and unmounts from racing Steve Dickson
2007-11-06  5:06 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-06  5:15   ` Alexander Viro [this message]
2007-11-08  9:05     ` Steve Dickson
2007-11-06  8:24   ` Benny Halevy
2007-11-06  8:50     ` Alexander Viro

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