> I know. It wasn't my intention to introduce it but as I said in my first > patch I've done a porting of this code from 2.6.10 and to remove it I > need time to analyze well the code to avoid deadlock and so on. If > someone would like to help me I'd really appreciate it. However I see > the use of BKL even in other recent "mainlined" fs as ext4, so I > preferred to move the porting effort on other areas. However it's the > first item on my todo list. Why do you need the lock in pram_find_and_alloc_blocks() to begin with? Why wouldn't a mutex work? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html