Re: [PATCH] configfs: Silence lockdep on mkdir(), rmdir() andconfigfs_depend_item()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 14:24 +0100, Louis Rilling wrote:

> However configfs_rmdir() and configfs_mkdir() (recursively) lock inodes because
> this is how the VFS works when removing/adding entries under a directory which
> has already lived in the dcache.

Ok, so then I'm not understanding things correctly.

Its not a locking correctness thing, but simply not being able to do it
from the vfs calls because those assume locks held?

Can't you simply punt the work to a worklet once you've created/removed
the non-default group, which can be done from within the vfs callback ?

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