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From: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: Remove BKL from remount() function in usbfs
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:21:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <63a49ef41003311021x4f73609bj7b4275f67914b3db@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003311654.38020.arnd@arndb.de>

Mr Bergmann,

2010/3/31 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>:
[...]
>> The function update_sb(), invoked by remount(), seems already well serialized
>> with &root->d_inode->i_mutex. Moreover don't seems there are others
>> super_operations functions in USB core for usbfs that should access to
>> super_block in a way which require BKL.
>
> There is a patch from Jan Blunck pending in the bkl-removal tree that pushes
> down the BKL into usbfs_fill_super. Can you confirm that this BKL usage does
> not interfere with the one you just removed, and that it can go the same way?

I can confirm that this certainly interfere: So please ignore my patch.

I'll elaborate a new patch when Blunck's works is merged.

Thanks!

Ciao,
Alessio

      reply	other threads:[~2010-03-31 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-31 14:09 Alessio Igor Bogani
2010-03-31 14:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-31 17:21   ` Alessio Igor Bogani [this message]

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