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SubjectRe: [PATCH] vfs: make real_lookup do dentry revalidation with i_mutex held
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:03:35AM -0700, Sage Weil wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Keeping i_mutes over do_revalidate seem fine from a first glance, but
> > can you please do it without rearranging the whole code?
>
> Yeah, but not without an extra goto. Holding i_mutex over revalidate is
> only half of it... we also want to go ahead with the ->lookup if the
> revalidate fails (instead of returning -ENOENT). I make the patch easier
> to read (with a goto), but I assumed we'd want the resulting code to be
> more clear?

Well, if you want to re-organize real_lookup make that a separate patch.
Might actually be worthwile to do so and clean up the other issues
in there (too long line in the prototype, spaces after the pointer *,
too. And then have a small patch ontop to implement the mutex and
going ahead with the lookup.



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