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svn:author
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mckusick
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svn:date
V 27
2002-10-14T03:20:36.000000Z
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svn:log
V 949
Regularize the vop_stdlock'ing protocol across all the filesystems
that use it. Specifically, vop_stdlock uses the lock pointed to by
vp->v_vnlock. By default, getnewvnode sets up vp->v_vnlock to
reference vp->v_lock. Filesystems that wish to use the default
do not need to allocate a lock at the front of their node structure
(as some still did) or do a lockinit. They can simply start using
vn_lock/VOP_UNLOCK. Filesystems that wish to manage their own locks,
but still use the vop_stdlock functions (such as nullfs) can simply
replace vp->v_vnlock with a pointer to the lock that they wish to
have used for the vnode. Such filesystems are responsible for
setting the vp->v_vnlock back to the default in their vop_reclaim
routine (e.g., vp->v_vnlock = &vp->v_lock).

In theory, this set of changes cleans up the existing filesystem
lock interface and should have no function change to the existing
locking scheme.

Sponsored by:	DARPA & NAI Labs.

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