Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:42:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:42:46 -0500 Received: from roc-24-169-102-121.rochester.rr.com ([24.169.102.121]:52240 "EHLO roc-24-169-102-121.rochester.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:42:33 -0500 Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 10:41:01 -0500 From: Chris Mason To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@redhat.com, viro@math.psu.edu Subject: 2.4.2-ac calls FS truncate w/o BKL Message-ID: <890000000.984152461@tiny> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.6b4 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 ;-) -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/