Re: [PATCH 0/4] IMA: making i_readcount a first class inode citizen

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Why the wrapper functions and locking? Why not an atomic variable like
> i_writecount?

Indeed. With moving this more into the VFS, let's just make sure it
looks like i_writecount as much as possible.

                      Linus
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