Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] spinlock: A new lockref structure for locklessupdate of refcount

[Waiman Long]

On 08/30/2013 05:30 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 05:10:45PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> See above. You are right, but if Linus wants to turn that sucker into 
> reader (which is possible - see e.g. cifs build_path_from_dentry() and 
> its ilk), d_move() races will start to play. 

Thank for the clarification.

-Longman
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