linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] f2fs:Fix locking requirements in the function recover

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Date:	Sun, 06 Sep 2015 17:41:45 +0800
From:	Chao Yu <chao2.yu@...sung.com>
To:	'Nicholas Krause' <xerofoify@...il.com>, jaegeuk@...nel.org
Cc:	cm224.lee@...sung.com, linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH] f2fs:Fix locking requirements in the function
 recover_dentry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicholas Krause [mailto:xerofoify@...il.com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2015 1:27 AM
> To: jaegeuk@...nel.org
> Cc: cm224.lee@...sung.com; chao2.yu@...sung.com; linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net;
> linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: [PATCH] f2fs:Fix locking requirements in the function recover_dentry
> 
> This fixes locking requirements in the function recover_dentry to
> properly lock the critical region between the labels retry and out
> with the read/write semaphone of the f2fs's superblock representation
> in order to protect against other concurrent threads of execution

The protecting is not needed, I've already relayed in last thread, please
refer to the link below:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/2234556?do=post_view_threaded#2234556

Thanks,

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