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SubjectRe: get_empty_filp() is not SMP safe. [f_version problem]
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I think you've misunderstood the purpose of i_version. It's supposed to
> record the version of a file so that if the inode is reused it still has
> a different NFS filehandle.

Are you sure that's not i_generation?

(Disclaimer: I don't have an unpacked 2.3 tree handy to check -- but I
saw mention of i_generation in a patch w.r.t. NFS inode versions around
here).

-- Jamie

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