Re: some missing spin_unlocks

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Aug 23 2005 - 12:40:36 EST


On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 10:30 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 18:54:03 +0200
>
> > does it matter? can ANYTHING be spinning on the lock? if not .. can we
> > just let the lock go poof and not unlock it...
>
> I believe socket lookup can, otherwise the code is OK as-is.

lookup while the object is in progress of being destroyed sounds really
bad though....


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