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| author | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2009-04-05 02:14:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2009-04-05 02:14:15 -0400 |
| commit | 478c6a43fcbc6c11609f8cee7c7b57223907754f (patch) | |
| tree | a7f7952099da60d33032aed6de9c0c56c9f8779e /Documentation/filesystems/Locking | |
| parent | 8a3f257c704e02aee9869decd069a806b45be3f1 (diff) | |
| parent | 6bb597507f9839b13498781e481f5458aea33620 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'linus' into release
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/longhaul.c
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index ec6a939..76efe5b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -437,8 +437,11 @@ grab BKL for cases when we close a file that had been opened r/w, but that can and should be done using the internal locking with smaller critical areas). Current worst offender is ext2_get_block()... -->fasync() is a mess. This area needs a big cleanup and that will probably -affect locking. +->fasync() is called without BKL protection, and is responsible for +maintaining the FASYNC bit in filp->f_flags. Most instances call +fasync_helper(), which does that maintenance, so it's not normally +something one needs to worry about. Return values > 0 will be mapped to +zero in the VFS layer. ->readdir() and ->ioctl() on directories must be changed. Ideally we would move ->readdir() to inode_operations and use a separate method for directory @@ -502,7 +505,7 @@ prototypes: void (*open)(struct vm_area_struct*); void (*close)(struct vm_area_struct*); int (*fault)(struct vm_area_struct*, struct vm_fault *); - int (*page_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *, struct page *); + int (*page_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_fault *); int (*access)(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long, void*, int, int); locking rules: |
