On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:32:46PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > I'm pretty sure that after the first call to invalidate_inodes() in > fs/super.c's generic_shutdown_super(), we really don't need to hold > the BKL or the superblock lock (and let the filesystems' low-level > write_super(0 and put_super() take the lock if they really need it), > but we probably need to take a closer look at this to make sure it's > true for all filesystems. (IIRC, I think Christoph was looking to > clean up lock_super(); at least with respect to the write_super call. > I don't know what his plans regarding the BKL and put_super(), > though.) Both the BKL and lock_super are not held for ->put_super anymore in the vfs tree. In fact in the vfs tree there are no callers of lock_super in the VFS anymore. -- 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
