Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:32:07 +0200 | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: [Announce] BKL shifting into drivers and filesystems - beware |
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Alexander Viro wrote: > > What is going to happen: > > * ->release() will be called without BKL. You need it - you take it. > I've added lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel() in all dubious instances of > ->release().
The pipe implementation doesn't require the BKL - you can remove the lock_kernel calls from fs/pipe.c and fs/fifo.c.
-- Manfred
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