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locks: remove misleading obsolete comment

Message ID 20180808170401.19859-1-jlayton@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series locks: remove misleading obsolete comment | expand

Commit Message

Jeff Layton Aug. 8, 2018, 5:04 p.m. UTC 
The spinlock handling in this file has changed significantly since this
comment was written, and the file_lock_lock is no more. In addition,
this overall comment no longer applies. Deleting an entry now requires
both locks.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
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 fs/locks.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
index 6138a9bcd924..11a4d698aba8 100644
--- a/fs/locks.c
+++ b/fs/locks.c
@@ -202,10 +202,6 @@  static DEFINE_HASHTABLE(blocked_hash, BLOCKED_HASH_BITS);
  * we often hold the flc_lock as well. In certain cases, when reading the fields
  * protected by this lock, we can skip acquiring it iff we already hold the
  * flc_lock.
- *
- * In particular, adding an entry to the fl_block list requires that you hold
- * both the flc_lock and the blocked_lock_lock (acquired in that order).
- * Deleting an entry from the list however only requires the file_lock_lock.
  */
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(blocked_lock_lock);