Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm tree with Linus' tree

Linus Torvalds
2013-09-13T20:34:39Z

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 04:25:48PM -0400, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> Yes. And I found the opposite bug in one place: when we are collecting
>> dentries by walking the parents etc, we do *not* hold the global RCU
>> lock,
>
> ??? LRU list lock, presumably?

Heh, yes. You wouldn't believe how many times I mis-typed "lru" as
"rcu" while doing that patch.

Much of the other dentry work this merge window was all about rcu, so
my fingers end up being confused..

Linus