On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:35:03PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Push down lock_super into ->write_super instances and remove it from the > caller. > > Following filesystem don't need ->s_lock in ->write_super and are skipped: > > * bfs, nilfs2 - no other uses of s_lock and have internal locks in > ->write_super > * ext2 - uses BKL in ext2_write_super and has internal calls without s_lock > * reiserfs - no other uses of s_lock as has reiserfs_write_lock (BKL) in > ->write_super Ehh... I'm not at all sure that reiserfs one is OK, but we are not exposing any races that didn't exist before ;-/ -- 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