Re: Q. locking order of dcache_lru_lock

[J. R. Okajima]

Peter Zijlstra:
> On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 22:20 +0900, J. R. Okajima wrote:
> >=20
> > When spin_trylock(&dentry->d_lock) successfully acquired d_lock, does
> > the violation of locking order happen (or a deadlock, in worse case)?=20
>
> No, since a trylock never actually blocks a deadlock cannot occur.

Ah, exactly. I had to be sleeping when I wrote about deadlock.
How about the locking order? Do you think d_lock after dcache_lru_lock
is a problem?


J. R. Okajima
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