On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 08:57 -0400, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > Why does ext4_fill_super release the BKL on entry and take it on both > normal and abnormal exit? As far as I can see, ext4_fill_super is called > by get_sb_bdev, which calls the ->get_sb method without the BKL, and > ext4_get_sb calls get_sb_bdev without the BKL. And the ext2 code does not > touch the BKL in ext2_fill_super. > > Is the VFS code going to be changed somewhere in the future and it's being > anticipated, or is this a bug? According to Documentation/filesystems/Locking, ->get_sb() is called with the BKL held, but looking through the code, I'm not able to find where it is being taken. Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
