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    SubjectRe: [GIT PATCH] TTY patches for 2.6.33-git
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    On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 20:04 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: 
    > In the above cases we have the following comment:
    >
    > /* Protect inode->i_flock using the BKL */
    >
    > And really it doesn't seem to protect anything else,
    > fortunately it is acquired in a short path.

    As I said in my reply, this is the tough one, because the BKL protection
    is imposed by the VFS locking scheme used in fs/locks.c.

    There is a similar dependency imposed upon fs/lockd/

    I'm working on this, but I don't have anything ready for 2.6.33.

    > fs/nfs/super.c: unlock_kernel();
    > fs/nfs/super.c: unlock_kernel();
    >
    > Protect the mount/unmount path, a bit trickier there.
    >
    > But really that looks way much easier to fix than it was
    > with reiserfs.

    All the other cases you list should be fixed in the GIT PULL request
    that I just put out.

    Trond



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