Re: [PATCH] [1/11] Remove BKL from remote_llseek

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 02:31:10PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> - Replace remote_llseek with remote_llseek_unlocked (to force compilation 
> failures in all users)
> - Change all users to either use remote_llseek directly or take the
> BKL around. I changed the file systems who don't use the BKL
> for anything (CIFS, GFS) to call it directly. NCPFS and SMBFS and NFS
> take the BKL, but explicitely in their own source now.
> 
> I moved them all over in a single patch to avoid unbisectable sections.

Good idea, but it could be done a little bit nicer still.

Your new remote_llseek_unlocked is the same as generic_file_llseek
except for the fact that it doesn't take i_mutex.  So I'd rather
call it generic_file_llseek_nolock and make generic_file_llseek call
it.  While you're at it you could also add some kerneldoc documents
describing them.

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