linux-ext4 - Re: Updated locking documentation for transaction

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Message-ID: <20181204053557.GA24942@thunk.org>
Date:   Tue, 4 Dec 2018 00:35:57 -0500
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Alexander Lochmann <alexander.lochmann@...dortmund.de>
Cc:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Horst Schirmeier <horst.schirmeier@...dortmund.de>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Updated locking documentation for transaction_t

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 03:54:06PM +0100, Alexander Lochmann wrote:
> The following members of struct transaction_s aka transaction_t
> were turned into lock-free variables in the past:
> - t_updates
> - t_outstanding_credits
> - t_handle_count
> However, the documentation has not been updated yet.
> This commit replaced the annotated lock by [none].
> 
> Found by LockDoc (Alexander Lochmann, Horst Schirmeier and Olaf Spinczyk)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lochmann <alexander.lochmann@...dortmund.de>
> Signed-off-by: Horst Schirmeier <horst.schirmeier@...dortmund.de>
> ---

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted