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SubjectRe: kernel BUG at fs/dcache.c:648! with v3.11-7890-ge5c832d
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On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com> wrote:
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> I need to clean up some comments in the code. The other thing that I want to
> do is to introduce read_seqlock/read_sequnlock() primitives that do the
> locking without incrementing the sequence number.

I don't understand. That's the whole *point* of sequence numbers. The
read-locker doesn't ever change the number, only the write-locker
does.

So I don't see what you would change.

Linus


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