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This patch moves the xarray lookup functionality for the lkb out of the ls_lkbxa_lock read lock handling. We can do that as the xarray should be possible to access lockless in case of reader like xa_load(). We confirm under ls_lkbxa_lock that the lkb is still part of the data structure and take a reference when its still part of ls_lkbxa to avoid being freed after doing the lookup. To do a check if the lkb is still part of the ls_lkbxa data structure we use a kref_read() as the last put will remove it from the ls_lkbxa data structure and any reference taken means it is still part of ls_lkbxa. A similar approach was done with the DLM rsb rhashtable just with a flag instead of the refcounter because the refcounter has a slightly different meaning. Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
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