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Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 11:40:19 -0400 From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> To: Alexander Lochmann <alexander.lochmann@...dortmund.de> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Horst Schirmeier <horst.schirmeier@...dortmund.de>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Updated locking documentation for journal_t On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 10:51:55AM +0100, Alexander Lochmann wrote: > Some members of transaction_t are allowed to be read without > any lock being held if consistency doesn't matter. > Based on LockDoc's findings, we extended the locking > documentation of those members. > Each one of them is marked with a short comment: > "no lock for quick racy checks". > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Lochmann <alexander.lochmann@...dortmund.de> > Signed-off-by: Horst Schirmeier <horst.schirmeier@...dortmund.de> > Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> Thanks, applied. I had to fix up the patch, which was mailer-damaged, and I also reflowed the comments. - Ted
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