On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Today I looked into this and I found a few ext2 and othe fses SMP races
> and a genuine UP race in wait_on_inode (iget/iput). I also fixed the not
> necessary double calling of clear_inode and added some commentary (see
> mainly the fs.h commentary). I am been careful only about ext2 and nfs and
> proc. I also checked fat and it seems to have its own locking so it should
> work fine in SMP too (I haven't tried fat though). (right fix for proc
> should be to change the proc_dir_entry->count to atomic_t but I didn't do
> that to not bloat the patch with details, it can be trivially improved
> with an incremental patch)
You also didn't care to look at sysvfs, ufs, etc.
BTW, _where_ can one call ext2_put_inode() without the big lock?
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