From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Modular filesystem using drop_inode would need inode_lock
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 22:50:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040709215046.GA6681@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B8E391BBE9FE384DAA4C5C003888BE6F019FB78F@scsmsx401.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 02:43:32PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> This is mostly a logical inconsistency at the moment (since the
> only filesystem that has a "drop_inode" function defined in its
> super_operations is hugetlbfs, and it is unlikely to move out of
> the kernel and into a module). But the ->drop_inode() function
> is called with inode_lock held, and it is expected to drop the
> lock ... which would be impossible for a module as the lock is
> not exported.
->drop_inode is a bad idea anyway. Please send a pointer to your
filesystem so we can fix it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-09 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-09 21:43 Luck, Tony
2004-07-09 21:50 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-07-09 22:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-20 1:18 ` William Lee Irwin III
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