Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5: push BKL out of llseek | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 30 Jan 2002 08:39:12 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 03:00, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>> " " == Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes: > > > So I'd prefer to do it in two stages - shift BKL into > > ->llseek() and then see where it can be dropped/replaced with > > ->i_sem. > > Seconded. There are several filesystems out there for which i_sem does > nothing to protect inode->i_size.
Then the first patch is the way to go. We know generic_file_llseek is safe and perhaps a few other of the llseek methods. The remaining can explicitly grab the bkl on their own, as Al suggested.
Robert Love
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