* Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:12:00PM +0200, Alessio Igor Bogani wrote: > > Push the BKL acquisition from vfs to every specific filesystems > > with hope that it can be eliminated in a second moment. > > > > The first 4 patches add BKL lock into umount_begin() functions > > (for the filesystems that have this handler). The last one > > remove lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel() from fs/namespace.c (the > > only point that invoke umount_begin() funtcions). > > I'd rather collapse all these patches together; no point doing > that per-fs (for all 4 of them). And CIFS side is bogus. > > Another thing: -tip is no place for that. I can put that into VFS > tree, provided that comments above are dealt with. When that happens, could you please put it into a separate, append-only branch i could pull (after some initial test-time) into tip:kill-the-BKL? Thanks, Ingo -- 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
