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From: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] spinlock: A new lockref structure for lockless
 update of refcount
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 17:42:57 -0400
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Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
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	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	"Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@hp.com>,
	"Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@hp.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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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