The BKL is only used in put_super, fill_super and remount_fs that are all three protected by the superblocks s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is safe to remove the BKL entirely. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@xxxxxxx> --- fs/affs/super.c | 22 +++++----------------- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/affs/super.c b/fs/affs/super.c index 151b930..ede5e44 100644 --- a/fs/affs/super.c +++ b/fs/affs/super.c @@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ #include <linux/parser.h> #include <linux/magic.h> #include <linux/sched.h> -#include <linux/smp_lock.h> #include "affs.h" extern struct timezone sys_tz; @@ -43,8 +42,6 @@ affs_put_super(struct super_block *sb) struct affs_sb_info *sbi = AFFS_SB(sb); pr_debug("AFFS: put_super()\n"); - lock_kernel(); - if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) affs_commit_super(sb, 1); @@ -53,8 +50,6 @@ affs_put_super(struct super_block *sb) affs_brelse(sbi->s_root_bh); kfree(sbi); sb->s_fs_info = NULL; - - unlock_kernel(); } static void @@ -298,8 +293,6 @@ static int affs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) u8 sig[4]; int ret = -EINVAL; - lock_kernel(); - save_mount_options(sb, data); pr_debug("AFFS: read_super(%s)\n",data ? (const char *)data : "no options"); @@ -309,10 +302,9 @@ static int affs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) sb->s_flags |= MS_NODIRATIME; sbi = kzalloc(sizeof(struct affs_sb_info), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!sbi) { - unlock_kernel(); + if (!sbi) return -ENOMEM; - } + sb->s_fs_info = sbi; mutex_init(&sbi->s_bmlock); @@ -490,7 +482,6 @@ got_root: sb->s_root->d_op = &affs_dentry_operations; pr_debug("AFFS: s_flags=%lX\n",sb->s_flags); - unlock_kernel(); return 0; /* @@ -506,7 +497,6 @@ out_error_noinode: out_error_free_sbi: kfree(sbi); sb->s_fs_info = NULL; - unlock_kernel(); return ret; } @@ -534,7 +524,7 @@ affs_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data) kfree(new_opts); return -EINVAL; } - lock_kernel(); + replace_mount_options(sb, new_opts); sbi->s_flags = mount_flags; @@ -542,10 +532,9 @@ affs_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data) sbi->s_uid = uid; sbi->s_gid = gid; - if ((*flags & MS_RDONLY) == (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) { - unlock_kernel(); + if ((*flags & MS_RDONLY) == (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) return 0; - } + if (*flags & MS_RDONLY) { sb->s_dirt = 1; while (sb->s_dirt) @@ -554,7 +543,6 @@ affs_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data) } else res = affs_init_bitmap(sb, flags); - unlock_kernel(); return res; } -- 1.6.4.2 -- 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