Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:57:48 +0200 | From | Marco <> | Subject | Re: Re: [PATCH 14/14] Pramfs: XIP Operations |
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Jared Hulbert wrote: > > 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?
It's not impossible to use a mutex, but as I said it's inherited from code written for 2.6.10. This function works as pram_get_and_update_block works.
Marco
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