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* [PATCH] remove outdated sentence from Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@ 2008-09-25  0:16 Christoph Hellwig
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From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2008-09-25  0:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: torvalds; +Cc: linux-fsdevel

All loop filesystem requests are done from a dedicated kthread for quite
a while, so the comment about aops called from the request handler are
untrue.


Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/filesystems/Locking	2008-09-25 02:14:13.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/Documentation/filesystems/Locking	2008-09-25 02:14:36.000000000 +0200
@@ -191,9 +191,6 @@ releasepage:		no	yes
 direct_IO:		no
 launder_page:		no	yes
 
-	->prepare_write(), ->commit_write(), ->sync_page() and ->readpage()
-may be called from the request handler (/dev/loop).
-
 	->readpage() unlocks the page, either synchronously or via I/O
 completion.
 

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