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author | Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> | 2014-11-06 16:29:25 -0500 |
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committer | Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> | 2014-11-06 16:29:25 -0500 |
commit | 77783d06427293b2d711c45cfd4abc6494a1af9c (patch) | |
tree | 5d8eed71173edc1dc005af5e2dc3136ce5512e72 /mm | |
parent | 5d11fb4b9a1d90983452c029b5e1377af78fda49 (diff) |
mm: Fix comment before truncate_setsize()
XFS doesn't always hold i_mutex when calling truncate_setsize() and it
uses a different lock to serialize truncates and writes. So fix the
comment before truncate_setsize().
Reported-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/truncate.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c index c646084e5eec..f1e4d6052369 100644 --- a/mm/truncate.c +++ b/mm/truncate.c | |||
@@ -715,8 +715,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(truncate_pagecache); | |||
715 | * necessary) to @newsize. It will be typically be called from the filesystem's | 715 | * necessary) to @newsize. It will be typically be called from the filesystem's |
716 | * setattr function when ATTR_SIZE is passed in. | 716 | * setattr function when ATTR_SIZE is passed in. |
717 | * | 717 | * |
718 | * Must be called with inode_mutex held and before all filesystem specific | 718 | * Must be called with a lock serializing truncates and writes (generally |
719 | * block truncation has been performed. | 719 | * i_mutex but e.g. xfs uses a different lock) and before all filesystem |
720 | * specific block truncation has been performed. | ||
720 | */ | 721 | */ |
721 | void truncate_setsize(struct inode *inode, loff_t newsize) | 722 | void truncate_setsize(struct inode *inode, loff_t newsize) |
722 | { | 723 | { |