Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:09:22 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5: push BKL out of llseek |
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On 29 Jan 2002, Robert Love wrote: > > This patch pushes the BKL out of llseek() and into the individual llseek > methods. For generic_file_llseek, I replaced it with the inode > semaphore.
Thinking about that, that actally sounds like the _right_ thing to do even from a correctness standpoint - as llseek() looks at the inode size, so we should have that lock anyway.
So I'd suggest doing the inode semaphore globally, instead of using kernel_lock at all.
Al?
Linus
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