Re: [PATCH 03/17] fs: icache lock inode hash

[Nick Piggin]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 02:06:50AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:18:35PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Currently the inode hash lists are protected by the inode_lock. To
> > allow removal of the inode_lock, we need to protect the inode hash
> > table lists with a new lock. Nest the new inode_hash_lock inside the
> > inode_lock to protect the hash lists.
> 
> There is no reason to make inode_hash_lock global, it's only used inside
> inode.c

It was like that while hugetlbfs still used it. Fixed, thanks.
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