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SubjectRe: [GIT PATCH] TTY patches for 2.6.33-git
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 02:09:14PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 20:04 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > In the above cases we have the following comment:
> >
> > /* Protect inode->i_flock using the BKL */
> >
> > And really it doesn't seem to protect anything else,
> > fortunately it is acquired in a short path.
>
> As I said in my reply, this is the tough one, because the BKL protection
> is imposed by the VFS locking scheme used in fs/locks.c.
>
> There is a similar dependency imposed upon fs/lockd/



Ok.


> > fs/nfs/super.c: unlock_kernel();
> > fs/nfs/super.c: unlock_kernel();
> >
> > Protect the mount/unmount path, a bit trickier there.
> >
> > But really that looks way much easier to fix than it was
> > with reiserfs.
>
> All the other cases you list should be fixed in the GIT PULL request
> that I just put out.
>


Cool, thanks a lot!



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