From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2.6] reiserfs: fix locking in reiserfs_remount
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 17:24:43 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F32531B.7080000@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030806173114.GB15024@namesys.com>
Oleg Drokin wrote:
>Hello!
>
>On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:28:13AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
>
>
>>> Since reiserfs_remount can be called without BKL held, we better take BKL in there.
>>> Please apply the below patch. It is against 2.6.0-test2
>>>
>>>
>>is the BKL in reiserfs_write_unlock()?
>>
>>
>
>Yes.
>
>
>
>>Do we need to be adding more BKL usage, instead of the same or less at this
>>point?
>>
>>
>
>Reiserfs needs BKL for it's journal operations. This is not "more",
>for some time BKL was taken in the VFS, then whoever removed that,
>forgot to propagate BKL down to actual fs methods that need the BKL.
>
>Bye,
> Oleg
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Is it known who removed it?
--
Hans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-07 13:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-06 9:38 [PATCH] [2.6] reiserfs: fix locking in reiserfs_remount Oleg Drokin
2003-08-06 17:28 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-06 17:31 ` Oleg Drokin
2003-08-07 13:24 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2003-08-07 13:33 ` Oleg Drokin
2003-08-07 15:24 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-07 15:27 ` Oleg Drokin
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