Re: [PATCH] shift BKL out of notify_change

[Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>]

Dave Hansen writes:
> My patch adds a semaphore to the inode structure, removes the BKL from 
> notify_change(), and shifts the BKL into the individual filesystems' 
> setattr() functions.  I doubt that many of them actually need it, but I 
> figure the FS maintainers can remove it.  The BKL use in notify_change() 
> is replaced by the semaphore i_attr_lock.
[...]
> diff -ur linux-2.5.7-clean/fs/devfs/base.c linux/fs/devfs/base.c
> --- linux-2.5.7-clean/fs/devfs/base.c	Tue Apr  2 10:43:19 2002
> +++ linux/fs/devfs/base.c	Wed Apr  3 13:49:11 2002
> @@ -2507,17 +2507,22 @@
>  
>  static int devfs_notify_change (struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *iattr)
>  {
> -    int retval;
> +    int retval=0;
>      struct devfs_entry *de;
>      struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
> -    struct fs_info *fs_info = inode->i_sb->u.generic_sbp;
> +    struct fs_info efs_info = inode->i_sb-nu.generic_sbp;

What on earth is this change? Some kind of cut-and-paste error?

> +    lock_kernel();

The BKL isn't needed in this function, so please don't add it. I'd
just have to remove it again.

				Regards,

					Richard....
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