linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] vfs and fs fixes

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Date:	Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:56:24 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] vfs and fs fixes

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> In principle, yes, but have you tried to grep for i_mutex?

No, I hadn't, and right you are. That's a mess.

It's not the i_mutex hits themselves that look scary, but there's 75
hits on just the *nested* locking. That's way more than I would have
guessed without the grep.

The ext4 ones look pretty simple. But yeah, there's a lot of other
noise there...

                    Linus
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