From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] BKL: Remove BKL from capifs
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:35:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100917.163530.266095048.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1284659185-8942-7-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de>
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:46:19 +0200
> The BKL is only used in fill_super, which is protected by the superblocks
> s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is safe to remove the BKL entirely.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
I've searched Linus's tree, net-2.6, and net-next-2.6 and I cannot
find one reference to lock_kernel() in drivers/isdn/capi/capifs.c
in any of them.
What did you write this patch against?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-17 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-16 17:46 [PATCH 00/12] more BKL removal after get_sb pushdown Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-16 17:46 ` [PATCH 06/12] BKL: Remove BKL from capifs Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-17 23:35 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-09-18 7:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
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