Re: [PATCH 24/25] r/o bind mounts: track number of mount writers

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Mon Sep 24 2007 - 10:35:26 EST



> It look like a false positive to me, but really, for a patchset of
> this complexity and maturity I cannot fathom how it could have
> escaped any lockdep testing.

the code tries to implement per cpu spinlocks, or rather it tries
to bring back the brlocks from way past.... cute.

we can educate lockdep about this quite easily; but isn't there some
primitive already in existence that we can use?

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