On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> Comments?
>
> --- fs/inode.c~       Thu Mar 22 16:04:13 2001
> +++ fs/inode.c        Thu Apr 12 15:18:22 2001
> @@ -347,6 +347,11 @@
>  #endif
>
>       spin_lock(&inode_lock);
> +     while (inode->i_state & I_LOCK) {
> +             spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
> +             __wait_on_inode(inode);
> +             spin_lock(&inode_lock);
> +     }
>       if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY))
>               goto out;
>       if (datasync && !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC))

Ehh.

Why not just lock the inode around the thing?

The above looks rather ugly.

                Linus

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