Re: [PATCH 07/18] fs: rework icount to be a locked variable

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:20:43AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Oh, NAK that - hit send too soon. I forgot - they're are done that
> way because they are under the inode_lock, and iref(), at this point
> in the series, takes the inode_lock. So while it looks weird, it has
> to stay that way otherwise it deadlocks.....

Sounds fine anyway.  I was just wondering why it was done, and
the later extension of the i_lock coverage is reason enough anyway.

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