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DateFri, 23 Jun 2006 11:51:11 +0200
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: [patch 37/61] lock validator: special locking: dcache
* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 18:35 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > DENTRY_D_LOCK_NORMAL isn't used anywhere.
> 
> I guess it is implied with the normal spin_lock.  Since 
>   spin_lock(&target->d_lock) and
>   spin_lock_nested(&target->d_lock, DENTRY_D_LOCK_NORMAL)
> are equivalent. (DENTRY_D_LOCK_NORMAL == 0)
> 
> Probably this deserves a comment.

i have added a comment to dcache.h explaining this better.

	Ingo
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