Re: [PATCH 2/2] hugetlb: synchronize alloc with page cache insert

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:24:23PM -0600, Adam Litke wrote:
> My only concern is if I am using the correct lock for the job here.

->i_lock looks rather fishy. It may have been necessary when ->i_blocks
was used for nefarious purposes, but without ->i_blocks fiddling, it's
not needed unless I somehow missed the addition of some custom fields
to hugetlbfs inodes and their modifications by any of these functions.


-- wli
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