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@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
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* LIFETIME:
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* Inode marks survive between when they are added to an inode and when their
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- * refcnt==0.
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+ * refcnt==0. Marks are also protected by fsnotify_mark_srcu.
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*
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* The inode mark can be cleared for a number of different reasons including:
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* - The inode is unlinked for the last time. (fsnotify_inode_remove)
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@@ -61,17 +61,6 @@
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* - The fsnotify_group associated with the mark is going away and all such marks
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* need to be cleaned up. (fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group)
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*
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- * Worst case we are given an inode and need to clean up all the marks on that
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- * inode. We take i_lock and walk the i_fsnotify_marks safely. For each
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- * mark on the list we take a reference (so the mark can't disappear under us).
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- * We remove that mark form the inode's list of marks and we add this mark to a
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- * private list anchored on the stack using i_free_list; we walk i_free_list
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- * and before we destroy the mark we make sure that we dont race with a
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- * concurrent destroy_group by getting a ref to the marks group and taking the
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- * groups mutex.
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-
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- * Very similarly for freeing by group, except we use free_g_list.
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- *
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* This has the very interesting property of being able to run concurrently with
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* any (or all) other directions.
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*/
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