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SubjectRe: [PATCH 08/17] fs: icache protect inode state
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:18:40PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
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> Before removing the inode_lock, we need to protect the inode list
> operations with the inode->i_lock. This ensures that all inode state
> changes are serialised regardless of the fact that the lists they
> are moving around might be protected by different locks. Hence we
> can safely protect an inode in transit from one list to another
> without needing to hold all the list locks at the same time.

The subject does not seem to match the patch description and content.



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