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

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 14 September 2010 22:53:31 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Oh well. I guess there's no incremental way to do things sanely. And
> nobody has patches to fix those users, I guess.

The only critical user is fs/lockd, I can easily handle the rest.
When I talked to Bruce and Trond during LinuxCon, they told me that
it should be possible to separate the bits of fs/lockd that lock
against fs/locks.c and convert the former to use lock_flocks().

That would be enough to actually apply this patch without the
nasty CONFIG_BKL check and with changes to the few other
consumers of file locks. My original plan was to have my current
patch in -next until that happens.

	Arnd
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