On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > --- fs/inode.c~ Thu Mar 22 16:04:13 2001
> > +++ fs/inode.c Thu Apr 12 15:18:22 2001
> > @@ -347,6 +347,11 @@
> > #endif
> >
> > spin_lock(&inode_lock);
> > + while (inode->i_state & I_LOCK) {
> > + spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
> > + __wait_on_inode(inode);
> > + spin_lock(&inode_lock);
> > + }
> > if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY))
> > goto out;
> > if (datasync && !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC))
>
> Ehh.
>
> Why not just lock the inode around the thing?
>
> The above looks rather ugly.
You mean writing a function called "lock_inode()" or whatever to basically
do what I did ?
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