On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 05:30:02PM +0200, Jan Blunck wrote: > Push down the big kernel lock to the filesystem implementations. Missing from this email is an assertion: "I've read through all the code formerly covered by the BKL inside do_kern_mount() and have satisfied myself that it doesn't need the BKL any more" I haven't spotted anything yet, but there's a non-trivial amount of code which was covered and now isn't. Someone more familiar with this code than I am might be able to spot a new race. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- 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
