Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Sep 2013 20:22:56 -0700 | Subject | Re: kernel BUG at fs/dcache.c:648! with v3.11-7890-ge5c832d | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com> wrote: > > I need to clean up some comments in the code. The other thing that I want to > do is to introduce read_seqlock/read_sequnlock() primitives that do the > locking without incrementing the sequence number.
I don't understand. That's the whole *point* of sequence numbers. The read-locker doesn't ever change the number, only the write-locker does.
So I don't see what you would change.
Linus
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