Hi,

On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 17:22 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:30:00 +0000
> [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > +static int gfs2_fiemap(struct inode *inode, struct fiemap_extent_info 
> > *fieinfo,
> > +                  u64 start, u64 len)
> > +{
> > +   struct gfs2_inode *ip = GFS2_I(inode);
> > +   struct gfs2_holder gh;
> > +   int ret;
> > +
> > +   ret = fiemap_check_flags(fieinfo, FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC);
> > +   if (ret)
> > +           return ret;
> > +
> > +   mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
> > +
> > +   ret = gfs2_glock_nq_init(ip->i_gl, LM_ST_SHARED, 0, &gh);
> > +   if (ret)
> > +           goto out;
> > +
> > +   if (gfs2_is_stuffed(ip)) {
> > +           u64 phys = ip->i_no_addr << inode->i_blkbits;
> > +           u64 size = i_size_read(inode);
> 
> It's actually safe to directly access i_size inside i_mutex.  Although
> not terribly maintainable.
> 
> 
I did wonder about that at the time, but I'm not quite sure if you are
suggesting that I should change this now, or leave it as it is?

Steve.

> > +           u32 flags = FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST|FIEMAP_EXTENT_NOT_ALIGNED|
> > +                       FIEMAP_EXTENT_DATA_INLINE;
> > +           phys += sizeof(struct gfs2_dinode);
> > +           phys += start;

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