On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 10:50:14 -0700 Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 08:38:37AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > > There was only one place where we still could free a file_lock while > > holding the i_lock -- lease_modify. Add a new list_head argument to the > > lm_change operation, pass in a private list when calling it, and fix > > those callers to dispose of the list once the lock has been dropped. > > As mentioned I don't see a real need for this, but it does look correct > to me. > > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> Yeah, it's not strictly necessary, but I think it simplifies the API for potential users. We already have the infrastructure to handle deferring file_lock removal so we might as well take advantage of it here too. -- Jeff Layton <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
