Coda: add spin lock to protect accesses to struct coda_inode_info.
authorYoshihisa Abe <yoshiabe@cs.cmu.edu>
Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:03:44 +0000 (02:03 -0400)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:02:40 +0000 (08:02 -0700)
We mostly need it to protect cached user permissions. The c_flags field
is advisory, reading the wrong value is harmless and in the worst case
we hit a slow path where we have to make an extra upcall to the
userspace cache manager when revalidating a dentry or inode.

Signed-off-by: Yoshihisa Abe <yoshiabe@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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