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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] fs: fix superblock iteration race
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:46:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTil8MgXVeIOkUT7F8c2EOiLQBHyfIWtMqjpYnm0X@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100612043848.GH16436@laptop>

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
>
> In fairness I added a lot more comments and a bit of whitespace,
> accounting for about half of those lines added.

Yeah, ok.  As mentioned, I can certainly go either way.

> I wouldn't mind a list macro to reset. I'd prefer the name
> match better with the iterator macro though.
> list_safe_reset_next()?

Yeah, it needs to be at least "list_" something. So
"list_safe_reset_next()" sounds as good as anything else. I wouldn't
expect it to be very common.

           Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-12  4:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-11 14:50 [patch] fs: fix superblock iteration race Nick Piggin
2010-06-11 16:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-12  3:37   ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-12  3:57   ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-12  4:15     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-12  4:38       ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-12  4:46         ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2010-06-14 15:07           ` Nick Piggin

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