fs: dcache remove dcache_lock

[linux-flexiantxendom0-natty.git] / include / linux / fs.h

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 090f0ea..296cf2f 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1378,7 +1378,7 @@ struct super_block {
 #else
        struct list_head        s_files;
 #endif
-       /* s_dentry_lru and s_nr_dentry_unused are protected by dcache_lock */
+       /* s_dentry_lru, s_nr_dentry_unused protected by dcache.c lru locks */
        struct list_head        s_dentry_lru;   /* unused dentry lru */
        int                     s_nr_dentry_unused;     /* # of dentry on lru */
 
@@ -2446,6 +2446,10 @@ static inline ino_t parent_ino(struct dentry *dentry)
 {
        ino_t res;
 
+       /*
+        * Don't strictly need d_lock here? If the parent ino could change
+        * then surely we'd have a deeper race in the caller?
+        */
        spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
        res = dentry->d_parent->d_inode->i_ino;
        spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);