On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 09:08:04 -0700 Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:41:17AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > > There was only one place where we still could free a file_lock while > > holding the i_lock -- lease_modify. Add a new list_head argument to the > > lm_change operation, pass in a private list when calling it, and fix > > those callers to dispose of the list once the lock has been dropped. > > Why do we care about locks held when simply freeing a piece of memory? > That's all that's done now, but locks_free_lock can call fl->fl_release_private. Currently, no filesystem sets that for leases, but while we're in here we might as well make it possible for that to block for all lock types since that's simpler than having different rules for them. It doesn't really cost us anything other than a bit of list manipulation and reduces contention on the i_lock slightly. -- Jeff Layton <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
