Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759695AbYA0XFg (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:05:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753454AbYA0XFZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:05:25 -0500 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:38584 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753131AbYA0XFY (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:05:24 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] [9/18] BKL-removal: Use unlocked_ioctl for jfs From: Dave Kleikamp To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <20080127021715.B24FE14D2E@wotan.suse.de> References: <20080127317.043953000@suse.de> <20080127021715.B24FE14D2E@wotan.suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:05:10 -0600 Message-Id: <1201475110.11997.35.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 666 Lines: 22 On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 03:17 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > Convert jfs_ioctl over to not use the BKL. The only potential race > I could see was with two ioctls in parallel changing the flags > and losing the updates. Use the i_mutex to protect against this. > > Cc: shaggy@austin.ibm.com > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Added to the jfs git tree. Thanks, Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center -- 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/