From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu, autofs@linux.kernel.org,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>,
Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net>,
Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Remaining BKL users, what to do
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:02:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100917140219.GA9454@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201009171550.49282.arnd@arndb.de>
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 03:50:49PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 17 September 2010, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:45:41PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > ncpfs: replace BKL with lock_super
> >
> > Err, no. lock_super is just as much on it's way out as the BKL. We've
> > managed to move it down from the VFS into a few remaining filesystems
> > and now need to get rid of those users. Please don't add any new ones.
>
> Ok. I guess that's also a NAK for my the isofs patch I posted yesterday
> then. Do you have any suggestions for an alternative approach?
Just add a per-sb mutex inside the filesystem. Given that lock_super
isn't used by the VFS anymore that's actually equivalent.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-17 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-16 14:32 Remaining BKL users, what to do Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-16 14:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-09-16 18:32 ` Jens Axboe
2010-09-17 18:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-16 15:04 ` Jan Kara
2010-09-16 21:26 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2010-09-17 10:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-17 13:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-17 13:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-17 14:02 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-09-17 14:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-17 19:00 ` [PATCH] BKL: Remove BKL from isofs Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-20 10:58 ` Jan Kara
2010-09-20 11:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-20 15:18 ` Jan Kara
2010-09-20 15:40 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2010-09-20 15:50 ` Jan Kara
2010-09-16 15:07 ` Remaining BKL users, what to do Alan Cox
2010-09-16 20:08 ` David Miller
2010-09-16 16:09 ` Anders Larsen
2010-09-16 16:57 ` Samuel Ortiz
2010-09-16 20:08 ` David Miller
2010-09-16 19:00 ` Jan Harkes
2010-09-16 19:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-20 1:25 ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
2010-10-18 15:42 ` [v2] " Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-18 16:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-18 17:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-18 18:43 ` [Ksummit-2010-discuss] " Greg KH
2010-10-18 23:00 ` Dave Airlie
2010-10-19 0:40 ` Greg KH
2010-10-19 0:57 ` Dave Airlie
2010-10-19 2:24 ` Greg KH
2010-10-19 2:45 ` Dave Airlie
2010-10-19 3:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-19 4:03 ` Dave Airlie
2010-10-19 5:00 ` Theodore Kilgore
2010-10-19 4:52 ` Dave Airlie
2010-10-19 7:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-19 12:39 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-19 13:54 ` Paul Mundt
2010-10-19 13:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-19 20:50 ` Dave Airlie
2010-10-20 16:14 ` Ville Syrjälä
2010-10-19 18:24 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-10-19 19:37 ` Greg KH
2010-10-19 19:40 ` Oliver Neukum
2010-10-19 20:29 ` Greg KH
2010-10-19 20:38 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-10-19 20:41 ` Alan Cox
2010-10-19 20:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-19 20:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-20 4:43 ` Dave Young
2010-10-20 6:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-11-02 1:21 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-03 6:58 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-21 12:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-21 13:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-21 13:50 ` [PATCH 1/2] BKL: remove BKL from qnx4 Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-21 15:22 ` Anders Larsen
2010-10-21 13:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] BKL: remove BKL from freevxfs Arnd Bergmann
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-17 23:21 Remaining BKL users, what to do Petr Vandrovec
2010-09-21 20:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
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