Re: [patch] lockdep: annotate vfs_rmdir for filesystems that takei_mutex in delete_inode

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 08:32 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > The VFS takes the directory i_mutex and reiserfs_delete_inode() takes the
> > to-be-deleted file's i_mutex.
> > 
> > That's notabug and lockdep will need to be taught about it.
> 
> Actually the annotation is in vfs_rmdir() since that is where the parent
> is taken (this may sound odd but the I_MUTEX_* ordering rules require
> the parent taking to be annotated rather than the child)


Ignore this; this one is wrong, more later

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