From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>,
"Linux-Kernel Mailinglist" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
jkacur@redhat.com, "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
"Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
"Jamie Lokier" <jamie@shareable.org>,
"Jan Blunck" <jblunck@suse.de>,
"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/15] BKL: Update documentation on llseek(\b)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:02:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091120170225.7ea2b37e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1258735245-25826-16-git-send-email-jblunck@suse.de>
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:40:45 +0100
Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> wrote:
> The inode's i_size is not protected by the big kernel lock. Therefore it
> does not make sense to recommend taking the BKL in filesystems llseek
> operations. Instead it should use the inode's mutex or use just use
> i_size_read() instead. Add a note that this is not protecting file->f_pos.
Looks good to me reading through it.
Alan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-20 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-20 16:40 [PATCH 00/15] Remove BKL from default_llseek() and other issues (v2) Jan Blunck
2009-11-20 16:40 ` [PATCH 01/15] Introduce noop_llseek() Jan Blunck
2009-11-20 17:05 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-20 17:11 ` Jan Blunck
2009-11-21 16:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-20 16:40 ` [PATCH 02/15] osst: Use noop_llseek() instead of default_llseek() Jan Blunck
2009-11-20 17:09 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-20 17:25 ` Jan Blunck
2009-11-20 16:40 ` [PATCH 03/15] osst: Update ppos instead of using file->f_pos Jan Blunck
2009-11-20 17:13 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-20 17:16 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-20 16:40 ` [PATCH 04/15] s390: tape_char should update " Jan Blunck
2009-11-20 16:40 ` [PATCH 05/15] flash_read should update ppos instead of file->f_pos Jan Blunck
2009-11-20 16:40 ` [PATCH 06/15] eeprom_read()/eeprom_write() " Jan Blunck
2009-11-20 16:40 ` [PATCH 07/15] sched_feat_write: Update " Jan Blunck
2009-11-20 16:40 ` [PATCH 08/15] airo: Use " Jan Blunck
2009-11-20 16:40 ` [PATCH 09/15] frv: remove "struct file *" argument from sysctl ->proc_handler Jan Blunck
2009-11-20 16:40 ` [PATCH 10/15] mISDN: Remove unnecessary test on f_pos Jan Blunck
2009-11-20 16:40 ` [PATCH 11/15] zcrypt: Use nonseekable_open() Jan Blunck
2009-11-20 16:40 ` [PATCH 12/15] rtc-m41t80: " Jan Blunck
2009-11-20 16:40 ` [PATCH 13/15] Do not fallback to default_llseek() when readdir() uses BKL Jan Blunck
2009-11-20 21:27 ` Jan Kara
2009-11-21 18:03 ` Anders Larsen
2009-11-20 16:40 ` [PATCH 14/15] BKL: Remove BKL from default_llseek() Jan Blunck
2009-11-20 16:40 ` [PATCH 15/15] BKL: Update documentation on llseek( \b) Jan Blunck
2009-11-20 17:02 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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