Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary)
So I'm basically not entirely convinced that these i_rwsem games make
any sense at all.
any sense at all.
The filesystem can do its own locking, and I'm starting to think that it would be better to just pass this "this is an integrity read" down to the filesystem, and expect the filesystem to do the locking based on that.
on that.
Linus
Linus
Linus
any sense at all.
The filesystem can do its own locking, and I'm starting to think that it would be better to just pass this "this is an integrity read" down to the filesystem, and expect the filesystem to do the locking based on that.
on that.
Linus
Linus
Linus