From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dan Luedtke <mail@danrl.de>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Are lock_super() and unlock_super() deprecated?
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 14:20:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120617182017.GA24248@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1339956342.4747.3.camel@localhost>
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 08:05:42PM +0200, Dan Luedtke wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> short question: What am I supposed to use instead of lock_super() and
> unlock_super() in newly written filesystem drivers?
Just use your own locking inside the filesystem. The direct replacement
would be a mutex, but if it fits your design better anything else will
work too.
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2012-06-17 18:05 Are lock_super() and unlock_super() deprecated? Dan Luedtke
2012-06-17 18:20 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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