On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:40:45 +0100 Jan Blunck <jblunck@xxxxxxx> wrote: > The inode's i_size is not protected by the big kernel lock. Therefore it > does not make sense to recommend taking the BKL in filesystems llseek > operations. Instead it should use the inode's mutex or use just use > i_size_read() instead. Add a note that this is not protecting file->f_pos. Looks good to me reading through it. Alan -- 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
