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author | Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com> | 2014-08-22 18:50:48 -0400 |
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committer | Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com> | 2014-10-07 14:06:13 -0400 |
commit | f82b4b6780afabce9d9a91c84fae17ec3d63b9d7 (patch) | |
tree | 525f28ccf756579147d7d498734a057b859e2215 /Documentation/filesystems/Locking | |
parent | 1c7dd2ff430fa14b45c9def54468e3a25ab8342b (diff) | |
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locks: move i_lock acquisition into generic_*_lease handlers
Now that we have a saner internal API for managing leases, we no longer
need to mandate that the inode->i_lock be held over most of the lease
code. Push it down into generic_add_lease and generic_delete_lease.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 3d92049ae71d..4af288e38f13 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -472,8 +472,6 @@ locking rules: All may block except for ->setlease. No VFS locks held on entry except for ->setlease. -->setlease has the file_list_lock held and must not sleep. - ->llseek() locking has moved from llseek to the individual llseek implementations. If your fs is not using generic_file_llseek, you need to acquire and release the appropriate locks in your ->llseek(). @@ -496,6 +494,10 @@ components. And there are other reasons why the current interface is a mess... ->read on directories probably must go away - we should just enforce -EISDIR in sys_read() and friends. +->setlease operations should call generic_setlease() before or after setting +the lease within the individual filesystem to record the result of the +operation + --------------------------- dquot_operations ------------------------------- prototypes: int (*write_dquot) (struct dquot *); |