linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: erofs: no need to take page lock in readdir

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Date:   Mon, 25 Feb 2019 09:35:22 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
To:     Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>
CC:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org>, "Chao Yu" <chao@...nel.org>,
        Miao Xie <miaoxie@...wei.com>, <weidu.du@...wei.com>,
        Fang Wei <fangwei1@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: erofs: no need to take page lock in readdir

On 2019/2/21 10:34, Gao Xiang wrote:
> VFS will take inode_lock for readdir, therefore no need to
> take page lock in readdir at all just as the majority of
> other generic filesystems.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>

Thanks,