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| author | Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> | 2008-10-20 06:17:52 +0400 |
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| committer | Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> | 2008-10-20 06:17:52 +0400 |
| commit | 4cb40f795af36b3deb743f6ccf6c3fd542c61c8d (patch) | |
| tree | db3d7519932549bf528f5b8e4cb8350356cd544d /Documentation/filesystems/Locking | |
| parent | 79ed2a9216dd3cc35c4f2c5dbaddadb195af83ac (diff) | |
| parent | 0cfd81031a26717fe14380d18275f8e217571615 (diff) | |
| download | linux-4cb40f795af36b3deb743f6ccf6c3fd542c61c8d.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/sh/include/asm/elf.h
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 15 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 680fb566b928..8362860e21a7 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -144,8 +144,8 @@ prototypes: void (*kill_sb) (struct super_block *); locking rules: may block BKL -get_sb yes yes -kill_sb yes yes +get_sb yes no +kill_sb yes no ->get_sb() returns error or 0 with locked superblock attached to the vfsmount (exclusive on ->s_umount). @@ -409,12 +409,12 @@ ioctl: yes (see below) unlocked_ioctl: no (see below) compat_ioctl: no mmap: no -open: maybe (see below) +open: no flush: no release: no fsync: no (see below) aio_fsync: no -fasync: yes (see below) +fasync: no lock: yes readv: no writev: no @@ -431,13 +431,6 @@ For many filesystems, it is probably safe to acquire the inode semaphore. Note some filesystems (i.e. remote ones) provide no protection for i_size so you will need to use the BKL. -->open() locking is in-transit: big lock partially moved into the methods. -The only exception is ->open() in the instances of file_operations that never -end up in ->i_fop/->proc_fops, i.e. ones that belong to character devices -(chrdev_open() takes lock before replacing ->f_op and calling the secondary -method. As soon as we fix the handling of module reference counters all -instances of ->open() will be called without the BKL. - Note: ext2_release() was *the* source of contention on fs-intensive loads and dropping BKL on ->release() helps to get rid of that (we still grab BKL for cases when we close a file that had been opened r/w, but that |