hpfs: remove the BKL

This removes the BKL in hpfs in a rather awful
way, by making the code only work on uniprocessor
systems without kernel preemption, as suggested
by Andi Kleen.

The HPFS code probably has close to zero remaining
users on current kernels, all archeological uses of
the file system can probably be done with the significant
restrictions.

The hpfs_lock/hpfs_unlock functions are left in the
code, sincen Mikulas has indicated that he is still
interested in fixing it in a better way.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/hpfs/hpfs_fn.h b/fs/hpfs/hpfs_fn.h
index 1c43dbe..c15adbc 100644
--- a/fs/hpfs/hpfs_fn.h
+++ b/fs/hpfs/hpfs_fn.h
@@ -342,3 +342,25 @@ static inline time32_t gmt_to_local(struct super_block *s, time_t t)
 	extern struct timezone sys_tz;
 	return t - sys_tz.tz_minuteswest * 60 - hpfs_sb(s)->sb_timeshift;
 }
+
+/*
+ * Locking:
+ *
+ * hpfs_lock() is a leftover from the big kernel lock.
+ * Right now, these functions are empty and only left
+ * for documentation purposes. The file system no longer
+ * works on SMP systems, so the lock is not needed
+ * any more.
+ *
+ * If someone is interested in making it work again, this
+ * would be the place to start by adding a per-superblock
+ * mutex and fixing all the bugs and performance issues
+ * caused by that.
+ */
+static inline void hpfs_lock(struct super_block *s)
+{
+}
+
+static inline void hpfs_unlock(struct super_block *s)
+{
+}