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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