On 07/19/2011 01:27 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
/*
* NOTE:
* all file operations except setlease can be called without
- * the big kernel lock held in all filesystems.
+ * the special spin_lock file_lock_lock held in all filesystems.
*/
struct file_operations {
struct module *owner;
I'd just remove the comment entirely.
From 765a06af4b8b4b67238e896fb6b82270d765195d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:30:17 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] fs:remove the out-of-date NOTE of file_operations structure
Big kernel lock had been removed and setlease now use the lock_flocks()
to hold a special spin lock file_lock_lock by Matthew.
So just remove the out-of-date NOTE.
Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/fs.h | 5 -----
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index b5b9792..67b2b21 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1538,11 +1538,6 @@ struct block_device_operations;
#define HAVE_COMPAT_IOCTL 1
#define HAVE_UNLOCKED_IOCTL 1
-/*
- * NOTE:
- * all file operations except setlease can be called without
- * the big kernel lock held in all filesystems.
- */
struct file_operations {
struct module *owner;
loff_t (*llseek) (struct file *, loff_t, int);
--
1.7.6
--
Thanks
Best Regards
Wanlong Gao
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