linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v2] ext2: Silence lockdep warning about reclaim under xattr

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Date:   Mon, 06 Apr 2020 20:50:21 +0900
From:   "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05g@...il.com>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ext2: Silence lockdep warning about reclaim under xattr_sem

Jan Kara:
> to serialize anything. But from a maintenance point of view it is better to
> acquire the lock so that possible assertions that lock is held in some
> helper functions don't barf or for the case the function gets used in a
> different code path in the future.

Ok, thanx.
"a maintenance point of view" is a good keyword for me.
I will post "the fix passed my local stress test" tomorrow.

J. R. Okajima