| commit | 7762f5a0b709b415fda132258ad37b9f2a1db994 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> | Tue Oct 17 00:10:07 2006 -0700 |
| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | Tue Oct 17 08:18:45 2006 -0700 |
| tree | 7eb1b54dc392f2100bf2cf1e407a2480a4680e7d | |
| parent | 9ffbb9162312fd8113037cb3d94f787f06bbfa9a [diff] |
[PATCH] document i_size_write locking rules
Unless someone reads the documentation for write_seqcount_{begin,end} it is
not obvious, that i_size_write() needs locking. Especially, that lack of such
locking can result in a system hang.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>