Re: [PATCH] block: replace BKL with global mutex

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Jun 01 2010 - 17:38:49 EST


NAK. You're really only creation a mini-BKL here without
sorting out the locking. Please go through the individual
callers and sort them out. Start by pushing the remaining
ioctls to the unlocked version and moving the BKL into the
->open and ->release methods.

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