Re: [PATCH 07/18] fs: rework icount to be a locked variable
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Oct 13 2010 - 07:36:48 EST
> - atomic_inc(&inode->i_count);
> + spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
> + inode->i_ref++;
> + spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
Why isn't this using iref?
> + spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
> + inode->i_ref++;
> + spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
Same here and in a couple of others.
Hmm, I guess because the i_lock later covers other things around.
But it still looks a bit weird.
Except for this stuff the patch looks good,
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
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