From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757946Ab0JUNQM (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:16:12 -0400 Received: from ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net ([150.101.137.141]:2861 "EHLO ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754310Ab0JUNQL (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:16:11 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhYEAGfav0x5LdoFgWdsb2JhbAChWBYBARYiIsAvhUoEj04 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:16:02 +1100 From: Nick Piggin To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Dave Chinner , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/21] fs: protect wake_up_inode with inode->i_lock Message-ID: <20101021131602.GA13620@amd> References: <1287622186-1935-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <1287622186-1935-18-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <20101021021722.GB5241@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101021021722.GB5241@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:17:22PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Looks good, and thanks for documenting unlock_new_inode. You wanted an example of how the irregular locking requires handling of new concurrency situations? This is another good one.