On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:53:22 +0530, Dibyayan Chakraborty said: > But I cant understand the following things.
Thanks... Specific questions are *much* easier to answer. ;) > 1. Why mutex lock is used in the code ? I know it is used for process > synchronisation but why that section of the code is critical ? I'll answer this in just a moment... > 2. What is the purpose of the "sget()" function ? It looks for a superblock for a filesystem, and if it doesn't find one that matches, it allocates it. The mutex is so that code executing on another CPU can't call put_super() or other code that screws around with the linked list (If you have a linked list A- -> B -> C, and smebody is removing B while you're finding the next one after A, you can end up going to where B *used* to be (and memory may be re-used for something totally different) instead of C. > 3. And what is the job of the function mount_bdev() ? It basically does a "given a block device and an indicator of what filesystem type, mount the filesystem" (Basically, the top-level routine for doing stuff like 'mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb5 /mnt" - if you look, you can see where all 3 parameters are passed to mount_bdev(). This is in contrast to mount_nodev(), which is called when a block device isn't involved (for instance, for procfs or other pseudo filesystems, and I think network FS like CIFS and NFS but I could be wrong on that last).
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