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DateWed, 21 May 2003 15:23:14 +0530
FromDipankar Sarma <>
SubjectRe: [patch 1/2] vfsmount_lock
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 02:35:23AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> >  struct vfsmount *lookup_mnt(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry)
> >   {
> >  +	spin_lock(&vfsmount_lock);
> >   	for (;;) {
> >   		tmp = tmp->next;
> >   		p = NULL;
> >   		if (tmp == head)
> >   			break;
> >   		p = list_entry(tmp, struct vfsmount, mnt_hash);
> >  -		if (p->mnt_parent == mnt && p->mnt_mountpoint == dentry)
> >  +		if (p->mnt_parent == mnt && p->mnt_mountpoint == dentry) {
> >  +			found = mntget(p);
> >   			break;
> >  +		}
> >   	}
> >  -	return p;
> >  +	spin_lock(&vfsmount_lock);
> >  +	return found;
> >   }
> 
> err, how many times do you want to spin that lock?

None, if you apply the second patch ;-)

Thanks
Dipankar
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