All loop filesystem requests are done from a dedicated kthread for quite a while, so the comment about aops called from the request handler are untrue. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/filesystems/Locking =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/filesystems/Locking 2008-09-25 02:14:13.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/Documentation/filesystems/Locking 2008-09-25 02:14:36.000000000 +0200 @@ -191,9 +191,6 @@ releasepage: no yes direct_IO: no launder_page: no yes - ->prepare_write(), ->commit_write(), ->sync_page() and ->readpage() -may be called from the request handler (/dev/loop). - ->readpage() unlocks the page, either synchronously or via I/O completion. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
