Re: [Announce] BKL shifting into drivers and filesystems - beware

From: Manfred Spraul (manfred@colorfullife.com)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2000 - 02:32:07 EST

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Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> What is going to happen:
>
> * ->release() will be called without BKL. You need it - you take it.
> I've added lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel() in all dubious instances of
> ->release().

The pipe implementation doesn't require the BKL - you can remove the
lock_kernel calls from fs/pipe.c and fs/fifo.c.

-- Manfred

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