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SubjectRe: [PATCH 13/15] Do not fallback to default_llseek() when readdir() uses BKL
On 2009-11-20 17:40:43, Jan Blunck wrote:
> Do not use the fallback default_llseek() if the readdir operation of
> the
> filesystem still uses the big kernel lock. Since llseek() modifies
> file->f_pos of the directory directly it may need locking to not
> confuse
> readdir which usually uses file->f_pos directly as well. Since the
> special
> characteristics of the BKL (unlocked on schedule) are not necessary
> in this
> case, the inode mutex can be used for locking as provided by
> generic_file_llseek(). This is only possible since all filesystems,
> except
> reiserfs, either use a directory as a flat file or with disk address
> offsets. Reiserfs on the other hand uses a 32bit hash off the
> filename as
> the offset so generic_file_llseek() can get used as well since the
> hash is
> always smaller than sb->s_maxbytes (= (512 << 32) - blocksize).
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
> ---

wrt fs/qnx4:
Acked-by: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net>


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