[Linux-cachefs] [PATCH v5 03/22] cachefiles: introduce on-demand read mode

[Gao Xiang]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 02:14:03PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > Why do you have a separate rwlock when the xarray already has its own
> > spinlock?  This is usually a really bad idea.
> 
> Jeffle wants to hold a lock across the CACHEFILES_DEAD check and the xarray
> access.
> 
> However, he tells xarray to do a GFP_KERNEL alloc whilst holding the rwlock:-/

Yeah, sorry, there are trivial mistakes due to sleep in atomic
contexts (sorry that I didn't catch them earlier..)

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

> 
> David
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