On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
>
> The added vmtruncate calls in the ac series trigger calls to the FS
> truncate without the BKL held. Easy enough to fix on the reiserfs side,
> but if other filesystems care we might want to change vmtruncate to grab
> the lock before calling truncate (and update the Locking doc ;-)
Grr... Thanks for spotting - it's my fault. No, I don't think that
we should move BKL into filesystems right now. Should move it into
vmtruncate(), though...
Alan, could you put lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel() around the call of
->truncate() in vmtruncate()?
Thanks,
Al
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