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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton-7I+n7zu2hftEKMMhf/gKZA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	bfields-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org,
	hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org,
	cluster-devel-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-nfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] locks: move freeing of leases outside of i_lock
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 09:08:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140824160804.GH15908@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1408804878-1331-10-git-send-email-jlayton-7I+n7zu2hftEKMMhf/gKZA@public.gmane.org>

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:41:17AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> There was only one place where we still could free a file_lock while
> holding the i_lock -- lease_modify. Add a new list_head argument to the
> lm_change operation, pass in a private list when calling it, and fix
> those callers to dispose of the list once the lock has been dropped.

Why do we care about locks held when simply freeing a piece of memory?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-24 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-23 14:41 [PATCH 00/10] locks/nfsd: internal lease API overhaul Jeff Layton
2014-08-23 14:41 ` [PATCH 04/10] locks: clean up vfs_setlease kerneldoc comments Jeff Layton
2014-08-24 15:51   ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]     ` <20140824155117.GC15908-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-25 20:11       ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-08-23 14:41 ` [PATCH 07/10] locks: define a lm_setup handler for leases Jeff Layton
     [not found]   ` <1408804878-1331-8-git-send-email-jlayton-7I+n7zu2hftEKMMhf/gKZA@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-24 15:58     ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-25  1:19       ` Jeff Layton
2014-08-26 13:58         ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-23 14:41 ` [PATCH 08/10] locks: move i_lock acquisition into generic_*_lease handlers Jeff Layton
     [not found]   ` <1408804878-1331-9-git-send-email-jlayton-7I+n7zu2hftEKMMhf/gKZA@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-24 16:06     ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]       ` <20140824160634.GG15908-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-24 16:11         ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]           ` <20140824161134.GJ15908-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-31 14:51             ` Jeff Layton
2014-08-25  1:36         ` Jeff Layton
     [not found] ` <1408804878-1331-1-git-send-email-jlayton-7I+n7zu2hftEKMMhf/gKZA@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-23 14:41   ` [PATCH 01/10] locks: close potential race in lease_get_mtime Jeff Layton
     [not found]     ` <1408804878-1331-2-git-send-email-jlayton-7I+n7zu2hftEKMMhf/gKZA@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-24 15:48       ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-25 20:01     ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-08-23 14:41   ` [PATCH 02/10] nfsd: fix potential lease memory leak in nfs4_setlease Jeff Layton
     [not found]     ` <1408804878-1331-3-git-send-email-jlayton-7I+n7zu2hftEKMMhf/gKZA@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-24 15:48       ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-23 14:41   ` [PATCH 03/10] locks: generic_delete_lease doesn't need a file_lock at all Jeff Layton
     [not found]     ` <1408804878-1331-4-git-send-email-jlayton-7I+n7zu2hftEKMMhf/gKZA@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-24  1:27       ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]         ` <20140824012757.GA21609-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-24 10:09           ` Jeff Layton
2014-08-23 14:41   ` [PATCH 05/10] nfsd: don't keep a pointer to the lease in nfs4_file Jeff Layton
     [not found]     ` <1408804878-1331-6-git-send-email-jlayton-7I+n7zu2hftEKMMhf/gKZA@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-24 15:51       ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-23 14:41   ` [PATCH 06/10] locks: plumb an "aux" pointer into the setlease routines Jeff Layton
     [not found]     ` <1408804878-1331-7-git-send-email-jlayton-7I+n7zu2hftEKMMhf/gKZA@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-24  1:33       ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]         ` <20140824013305.GB21609-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-24 10:08           ` Jeff Layton
     [not found]             ` <20140824060801.5402880c-08S845evdOaAjSkqwZiSMmfYqLom42DlXqFh9Ls21Oc@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-24 15:54               ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-25 20:28       ` J. Bruce Fields
     [not found]         ` <20140825202852.GD21957-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-26 10:53           ` Jeff Layton
2014-08-23 14:41   ` [PATCH 09/10] locks: move freeing of leases outside of i_lock Jeff Layton
     [not found]     ` <1408804878-1331-10-git-send-email-jlayton-7I+n7zu2hftEKMMhf/gKZA@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-24 16:08       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
     [not found]         ` <20140824160804.GH15908-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-25  1:35           ` Jeff Layton
2014-08-23 14:41   ` [PATCH 10/10] locks: update Documentation/filesystems with lease API changes Jeff Layton
2014-08-24 16:10   ` [PATCH 00/10] locks/nfsd: internal lease API overhaul Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]     ` <20140824161046.GI15908-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-25  1:43       ` Jeff Layton
     [not found]         ` <20140824214301.61019123-08S845evdOaAjSkqwZiSMmfYqLom42DlXqFh9Ls21Oc@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-26 13:59           ` Christoph Hellwig

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