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diff --git a/fs/jffs2/README.Locking b/fs/jffs2/README.Locking index 49771cf8513..b7943439b6e 100644 --- a/fs/jffs2/README.Locking +++ b/fs/jffs2/README.Locking @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - $Id: README.Locking,v 1.9 2004/11/20 10:35:40 dwmw2 Exp $ + $Id: README.Locking,v 1.12 2005/04/13 13:22:35 dwmw2 Exp $ JFFS2 LOCKING DOCUMENTATION --------------------------- @@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ in-core jffs2_inode_cache objects (each inode in JFFS2 has the correspondent jffs2_inode_cache object). So, the inocache_lock has to be locked while walking the c->inocache_list hash buckets. +This spinlock also covers allocation of new inode numbers, which is +currently just '++->highest_ino++', but might one day get more complicated +if we need to deal with wrapping after 4 milliard inode numbers are used. + Note, the f->sem guarantees that the correspondent jffs2_inode_cache will not be removed. So, it is allowed to access it without locking the inocache_lock spinlock. |