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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:48:26 +0200
From: Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
CC: Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 1/2] anon-inodes: Remove fd_install() from anon_inode_getfd()
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 06:45:34PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>
>> > spin_lock(&kvm_lock);
>> > + if (--kvm->refcount) {
>> > + spin_lock(&kvm_lock);
>>
>> obvious typo here...
>>
>
>
> Indeed. Any comments from the kvm developers in this approach? The
> current multi-level file refcounting seems rather bogus so I'd like
> to make some progress on this.
>
>
I'm okay with switching away from the file-based refcounts to a refcount
embedded in the kvm structures, though I'm not particularly thrilled by
it. Any reason not to use krefs for this?
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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