Re: [RFC] page lock ordering and OCFS2

[Zach Brown]

> All those games with PG_fs_misc look awfully similar to lock_page() - I'd
> have thought there's some room for rationalising code in there.

Yeah, it's very much like a secondary restricted page lock.  Instead of
sleeping when you can't get the page lock, you can also try acquiring this sort
of secondary page lock bit which lets you do *very* specific things.  Maybe
it's not *that* weird, I just didn't think that the core would be interested in
supporting that notion.  I can try rolling a patch to see what a more sensible
API would look like.

> The overall approach would be to avoid adding overhead and complexity for
> other filesystems and to only export symbols which constitute a sensible
> API:

*nod*

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