From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian McMenamin Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/filesystems: remove out of date reference to BKL being held Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:17:22 +0000 Message-ID: <1237159042.6636.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LKML , linux-fsdevel , "Randy.Dunlap" , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mk-filter-4-a-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.100.55]:63276 "EHLO mk-filter-4-a-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754271AbZCOXRf (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:17:35 -0400 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt incorrectly states that the kernel is locked during the call to statfs (Documentation/filesystems/Locking correctly says it is not). This patch removes the offending sentence. remove reference to BKL being held in statfs Signed-off-by: Adrian McMenamin --- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index deeeed0..f49eecf 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -277,8 +277,7 @@ or bottom half). unfreeze_fs: called when VFS is unlocking a filesystem and making it writable again. - statfs: called when the VFS needs to get filesystem statistics. This - is called with the kernel lock held + statfs: called when the VFS needs to get filesystem statistics. remount_fs: called when the filesystem is remounted. This is called with the kernel lock held