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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c index 1256746b249f..58865fe47806 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c @@ -431,14 +431,13 @@ xfs_ireclaim(xfs_inode_t *ip) xfs_iextract(ip); /* - * Here we do a spurious inode lock in order to coordinate with - * xfs_sync(). This is because xfs_sync() references the inodes - * in the mount list without taking references on the corresponding - * vnodes. We make that OK here by ensuring that we wait until - * the inode is unlocked in xfs_sync() before we go ahead and - * free it. We get both the regular lock and the io lock because - * the xfs_sync() code may need to drop the regular one but will - * still hold the io lock. + * Here we do a spurious inode lock in order to coordinate with inode + * cache radix tree lookups. This is because the lookup can reference + * the inodes in the cache without taking references. We make that OK + * here by ensuring that we wait until the inode is unlocked after the + * lookup before we go ahead and free it. We get both the ilock and + * the iolock because the code may need to drop the ilock one but will + * still hold the iolock. */ xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL | XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL); |