Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> wrote:
>
> Alex Tomas <bzzz@tmi.comex.ru> wrote:
> >
> >
> > hi!
> >
> > I took a look at readdir() in 2.5.64's ext2 and found it serialized by BKL.
>
> Yes, I had this in -mm for ages, seem to have lost it. Also removal of BKL
> from lseek().
>
> The theory is that the lock is there to avoid f_pos races against lseek. We
> ended up deciding that the way to address this is to ensure that all readdir
> implementations do:
>
hm, no. lseek is using the directory's i_sem now, and readdir runs
under that too. So we should be able to remove lock_kernel() from
the readdir implementation of all filesystems which are using
generic_file_llseek().
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Mar 15 2003 - 22:00:43 EST