Re: [PATCH] [2.6] reiserfs: fix locking in reiserfs_remount

From: Oleg Drokin (green@namesys.com)
Date: Thu Aug 07 2003 - 08:33:58 EST


Hello!

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:24:43PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:

> >Reiserfs needs BKL for it's journal operations. This is not "more",
> >for some time BKL was taken in the VFS, then whoever removed that,
> >forgot to propagate BKL down to actual fs methods that need the BKL.
> Is it known who removed it?

I think it was Andrew. At least this new emergency remount path without
BKL was introduced by his patch without any extra attribution.

Bye,
    Oleg
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