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| author | Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com> | 2014-08-12 18:38:07 +0400 |
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| committer | Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com> | 2014-08-14 18:08:20 +0400 |
| commit | 2ece173e4715031c031de9114491eee80a69cf68 (patch) | |
| tree | ae7ecd55bbe5e69667b3771ed529f7e5867a3bea /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | 2dfb928f7e5977a3faac943c134bbda5ae492629 (diff) | |
| download | linux-2ece173e4715031c031de9114491eee80a69cf68.tar.xz | |
locks: update Locking documentation to clarify fl_release_private behavior
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index b18dd1779029..f1997e9da61f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -349,7 +349,11 @@ prototypes: locking rules: inode->i_lock may block fl_copy_lock: yes no -fl_release_private: maybe no +fl_release_private: maybe maybe[1] + +[1]: ->fl_release_private for flock or POSIX locks is currently allowed +to block. Leases however can still be freed while the i_lock is held and +so fl_release_private called on a lease should not block. ----------------------- lock_manager_operations --------------------------- prototypes: |