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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 21 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index f94a362f408..c2963a74fbc 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ prototypes: locking rules: - file_lock_lock may block + inode->i_lock may block fl_copy_lock: yes no fl_release_private: maybe no @@ -355,12 +355,19 @@ prototypes: int (*lm_change)(struct file_lock **, int); locking rules: - file_lock_lock may block -lm_compare_owner: yes no -lm_notify: yes no -lm_grant: no no -lm_break: yes no -lm_change yes no + + inode->i_lock file_lock_lock may block +lm_compare_owner: yes[1] maybe no +lm_notify: yes yes no +lm_grant: no no no +lm_break: yes no no +lm_change yes no no + +[1]: ->lm_compare_owner is generally called with *an* inode->i_lock held. It +may not be the i_lock of the inode for either file_lock being compared! This is +the case with deadlock detection, since the code has to chase down the owners +of locks that may be entirely unrelated to the one on which the lock is being +acquired. When doing a search for deadlocks, the file_lock_lock is also held. --------------------------- buffer_head ----------------------------------- prototypes: |