On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 11:47:18PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > We only call the functions set_device_ro(), > invalidate_bdev(), sync_filesystem() and sync_blockdev() > while holding the BKL in these commands. All > of these are also done in other code paths without > the BKL, which leads me to the conclusion that > the BKL is not needed here either. > > The reason we hold it here is that it was originally > pushed down into the ioctl function from vfs_ioctl. Looks good, Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> -- 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
