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

[Linus Torvalds]

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