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

Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no)
30 Jan 2002 09:00:10 +0100

>>>>> " " == Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:

> So I'd prefer to do it in two stages - shift BKL into
> ->llseek() and then see where it can be dropped/replaced with
> ->i_sem.

Seconded. There are several filesystems out there for which i_sem does
nothing to protect inode->i_size.

Cheers,
Trond
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