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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.5: push BKL out of llseek

On 29 Jan 2002, Robert Love wrote:
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> Another gain from pushing the locks into each method is that we can pick
> and choose as-needed. If it turns out inode semaphore is a global
> solution, the following patch is sufficient. Otherwise, we could
> replace the lock_kernel in each caller with the inode semaphore, as
> appropriate. Oh Al ??

Doing it in the low-level filesystem would match how we now do it inside
generic_file_write() - ie the locking is done by the low-level filesystem,
but most low-level filesystems choose to use a generic helper function.

And I think your patch is slightly wrong:

> + down(&file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_sem);

That should really be:

file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mapping->host->i_sem

to get the hosted filesystem case right (ie coda).

Linus

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