On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:40:47PM +0100, Alessio Igor Bogani wrote: > Replace bkl with the inode->i_alloc_sem rw semaphore in udf_release_file(), > udf_symlink(), udf_symlink_filler(), udf_get_block() and udf_block_map(). > Add protection in udf_evict_inode() using the same i_alloc_sem rw semaphore. I'd rather prefer not to introduce new users of i_alloc_sem. It's a quite nasty beast: the only rw_semaphore that is not released by the thread acquiring it. Thomas asked me if there's a way to get rid of it, and I've come up with some schemes that I need to prototype. Adding more uses that are unrelated to the original direct I/O use case are not very helpful in doing that. -- 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
