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SubjectRe: [PATCH 06/12] BKL: Remove BKL from capifs
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On Saturday 18 September 2010 01:35:30 David Miller wrote:
>
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:46:19 +0200
>
> > The BKL is only used in fill_super, which is protected by the superblocks
> > s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is safe to remove the BKL entirely.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
>
> I've searched Linus's tree, net-2.6, and net-next-2.6 and I cannot
> find one reference to lock_kernel() in drivers/isdn/capi/capifs.c
> in any of them.
>
> What did you write this patch against?

As I wrote in my [PATCH 0/12], it applies on top of the pushdown
of the BKL into the get_sb operation, and I intend to submit it
to Linus with the full series.

I agree that this particular patch is a bit pointless because
all it does is to undo the change from the pushdown. I guess
that at the time when the first patch was written, the BKL
was still present in other parts of capifs.

Arnd


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