linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC] inode.i_opflags - Usage of two different locking schemes

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Message-ID: <667b3ec3-a522-05a9-31e8-87d8bfaa7adb@tu-dortmund.de>
Date:   Fri, 5 Mar 2021 16:35:47 +0100
From:   Alexander Lochmann <alexander.lochmann@...dortmund.de>
To:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     Horst Schirmeier <horst.schirmeier@...dortmund.de>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] inode.i_opflags - Usage of two different locking schemes



On 05.03.21 16:18, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 1)  I don't see where i_opflags is being read in ipc/mqueue.c at all,
> either with or without i_rwsem.
> 
It is read in fs/dcache.c
> 2)  I'm not sure what this has to do with ext4?
> 
>          	    	      	       	  - Ted
> 
Yeah. You're right. That was my fault. Sry.
I should have sent it to linux-kernel@... only.

- Alex

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