Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/miscfs/genfs
To: None <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: source-changes
Date: 06/20/2004 14:15:24
> > Module Name: src
> > Committed By: yamt
> > Date: Sat Jun 19 06:17:15 UTC 2004
> >
> > Modified Files:
> > src/sys/miscfs/genfs: layer_vnops.c
> >
> > Log Message:
> > layer_islocked: check a status of the lower vnode as well.
>
> Actually I think it is about time we rip out the shadow locking that
> layered file systems are doing. When it was added, a number of file
> systems (nfs, kernfs, procfs) didn't do real node locking; they used
> genfs_nolock(). Now there are very few uses of genfs_nolock(), so I think
> we can just remove it.
what's the "shadow locking" do you mean?
YAMAMOTO Takashi