Re: [PATCH] Shift BKL into ->statfs()

From: Matthew Wilcox (willy@debian.org)
Date: Wed Jul 03 2002 - 07:28:48 EST

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On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 12:57:56AM -0700, Paul Menage wrote:
> All ->statfs() implementations have been modified to take the BKL,
> except for the following:
>
> - those that don't reference any external mutable data:

... also adfs_statfs,

> - those that already have their own locking:

... also affs_statfs, bfs_statfs, ext3_statfs, hfs_statfs, jffs2_statfs,
jfs_statfs

I think ufs_statfs needs lock_super() due to its handling of fragments.

qnx4 looks terribly broken for read-write anyway... probably just keep the
lock_kernel / unlock_kernel around the call to qnx4_count_free_blocks().

I haven't audited coda, hpfs, jffs, nfs, smbfs & udf.

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