Re: Modular filesystem using drop_inode would need inode_lock

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 02:43:32PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> This is mostly a logical inconsistency at the moment (since the
> only filesystem that has a "drop_inode" function defined in its
> super_operations is hugetlbfs, and it is unlikely to move out of
> the kernel and into a module).  But the ->drop_inode() function
> is called with inode_lock held, and it is expected to drop the
> lock ... which would be impossible for a module as the lock is
> not exported.

->drop_inode is a bad idea anyway.  Please send a pointer to your
filesystem so we can fix it.

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