Re: [PATCH 08/27] BKL: Remove BKL from ext4 filesystem

Theodore Tso
2009-11-09T14:45:05Z

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 11:04:48AM +0100, Jan Blunck wrote:
> The BKL is still used in ext4_put_super(), ext4_fill_super() and
> ext4_remount(). All three calles are protected against concurrent calls by
> the s_umount rw semaphore of struct super_block.
>
> Therefore the BKL is protecting nothing in this case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>

Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

- Ted