Re: [PATCH 15/15] BKL: Update documentation onllseek()

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:40:45 +0100
Jan Blunck <jblunck@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> The inode's i_size is not protected by the big kernel lock. Therefore it
> does not make sense to recommend taking the BKL in filesystems llseek
> operations. Instead it should use the inode's mutex or use just use
> i_size_read() instead. Add a note that this is not protecting file->f_pos.

Looks good to me reading through it.

Alan
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