[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/2] ocfs2/lockdep: Move ip_xattr_sem out of ocfs2_xattr_get_nolock.

[Joel Becker]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 01:30:05PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> As the name shows, we shouldn't have any lock in
> ocfs2_xattr_get_nolock. so lift ip_xattr_sem to the caller.
> This should be safe for us since the only 2 callers are:
> 1. ocfs2_xattr_get which will lock the resources.
> 2. ocfs2_mknod which don't need this locking.

	This patch is now in the fixes branch of ocfs2.git.

Joel

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