Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 03:16:50 -0700
From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.com>
Is it required that I hold the kernel lock with lock_kernel() over
the Linux Buffer Cache when doing I/O to it in 2.2.15?
Yes. The buffer cache was not thread safe until I did that
work circa ~2.3.13 or so.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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