From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] vfs: umount_begin BKL pushdown v2 Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:02:01 -0400 Message-ID: <20090424190201.GA420@infradead.org> References: <20090423191934.GW1926@parisc-linux.org> <1240556813-8739-1-git-send-email-abogani@texware.it> <1240556813-8739-2-git-send-email-abogani@texware.it> <20090424071312.GE8633@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20090424071853.GG8633@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20090424080634.GG24912@elte.hu> <20090424085017.GB28592@infradead.org> <20090424175025.GA30091@infradead.org> <20090424185524.GO8633@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Fr?d?ric Weisbecker , Ingo Molnar , Alessio Igor Bogani , Jonathan Corbet , Peter Zijlstra , LKML , LFSDEV , Linus Torvalds , Matthew Wilcox To: Al Viro Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:55421 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753265AbZDXTCN (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:02:13 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090424185524.GO8633@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 07:55:24PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > Nah, it's not that. I can hold that in a separate branch and keep it > anchored. The question is, what else will end up there? > * the work inside the methods on BKL _removal_ > * things like merging that ->write_super() call into ->put_super(), > etc. > * probably parts of work on s_flags mess and ro (tied to remout) * moving lock_super from callers into ->write_super and ->remount_fs. No need to only push one lock down when we touch them anyway.