linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] VFS: call synchronize_rcu after kill

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Message-ID: <20110209045007.GA29650@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 8 Feb 2011 23:50:07 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
Cc:	"Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Tao Ma <tm@....ma>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VFS: call synchronize_rcu after kill_sb.

> +		/*
> +		 * We need to synchronize rcu here so that
> +		 * the delayed rcu inode free can be executed
> +		 * before we put_super.
> +		 * https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27652
> +		 */

URLs in comments are not useful, descriptions of the issues in comments
should be complete enough to understand the issue.  I think the comment
without the url is enough, though.

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