Re: [PATCH] Remove BKL from fs/locks.c

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hmm, maybe I'm misunderstanding part of that plan, but I think it
> won't work because the BKL in there seems to protect all struct file_lock
> instances and they are passed around to other code, most importantly
> lockd. The file_locks themselves can be accessed both using sys_flock()
> etc locally and using afs/nfs/coda/... exported file systems from other
> systems.

Ahh, so lockd actually walks those things itself too, not just using
the fs/locks.c interfaces. Ok, scratch that then.

Oh well. I guess there's no incremental way to do things sanely. And
nobody has patches to fix those users, I guess.

                                Linus
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