From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] kernfs: release kernfs_mutex before the inode allocation
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 06:35:17 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YZaAxQQ+7hckBLXb@slm.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YZWylT2SuN+N2Z2K@google.com>
On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 05:55:33PM -0800, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > Ah, right, kernfs_node doesn't point back to kernfs_root. I guess it can go
> > one of three ways:
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, Tejun.
>
> I found kernfs_root and it seems like to return kernfs_root from kernfs_node.
> If it's true all the case, we would put the rwsem in kernfs_root and change
> would be straightforward. Do you see any problem?
Ah, you're right. I forgot that directory kernfs_node always points to the
root so we need at most one walk up the tree to locate kernfs_root. Yeah,
that should definitely work.
Thanks.
--
tejun
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-18 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-16 19:43 [RFC PATCH] kernfs: release kernfs_mutex before the inode allocation Minchan Kim
2021-11-16 19:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-11-16 21:36 ` Minchan Kim
2021-11-17 6:44 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-11-17 7:27 ` Minchan Kim
2021-11-17 7:39 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-11-17 21:43 ` Minchan Kim
2021-11-17 21:45 ` Tejun Heo
2021-11-17 22:13 ` Minchan Kim
2021-11-17 22:23 ` Tejun Heo
2021-11-18 1:55 ` Minchan Kim
2021-11-18 16:35 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
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