Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:15:03 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 14/14] Pramfs: XIP operations | From | Jared Hulbert <> |
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> I know. It wasn't my intention to introduce it but as I said in my first > patch I've done a porting of this code from 2.6.10 and to remove it I > need time to analyze well the code to avoid deadlock and so on. If > someone would like to help me I'd really appreciate it. However I see > the use of BKL even in other recent "mainlined" fs as ext4, so I > preferred to move the porting effort on other areas. However it's the > first item on my todo list.
Why do you need the lock in pram_find_and_alloc_blocks() to begin with? Why wouldn't a mutex work?
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