From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxx> The BKL was pushed down from VFS to the file-systems. It used to serialize mount/unmount/remount. UBIFS must be safe if several file-systems are mounted/unmounted/re-mounted at the same time, so kill kick the BKL out of UBIFS. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ubifs/super.c | 15 ++------------- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ubifs/super.c b/fs/ubifs/super.c index 26d2e0d..4ad992f 100644 --- a/fs/ubifs/super.c +++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c @@ -1726,8 +1726,6 @@ static void ubifs_put_super(struct super_block *sb) ubifs_msg("un-mount UBI device %d, volume %d", c->vi.ubi_num, c->vi.vol_id); - lock_kernel(); - /* * The following asserts are only valid if there has not been a failure * of the media. For example, there will be dirty inodes if we failed @@ -1792,8 +1790,6 @@ static void ubifs_put_super(struct super_block *sb) ubi_close_volume(c->ubi); mutex_unlock(&c->umount_mutex); kfree(c); - - unlock_kernel(); } static int ubifs_remount_fs(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data) @@ -1809,24 +1805,18 @@ static int ubifs_remount_fs(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data) return err; } - lock_kernel(); if ((sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) && !(*flags & MS_RDONLY)) { if (c->ro_media) { ubifs_msg("cannot re-mount due to prior errors"); - unlock_kernel(); return -EROFS; } err = ubifs_remount_rw(c); - if (err) { - unlock_kernel(); + if (err) return err; - } } else if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) && (*flags & MS_RDONLY)) { - if (c->ro_media) { + if (c->ro_media) ubifs_msg("cannot re-mount due to prior errors"); - unlock_kernel(); return -EROFS; - } ubifs_remount_ro(c); } @@ -1839,7 +1829,6 @@ static int ubifs_remount_fs(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data) } ubifs_assert(c->lst.taken_empty_lebs > 0); - unlock_kernel(); return 0; } -- 1.6.0.6 -- 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