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To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5: push BKL out of llseek
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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
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>>>>> " " == Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:

     > So I'd prefer to do it in two stages - shift BKL into
     > ->llseek() and then see where it can be dropped/replaced with
     > ->i_sem.

Seconded. There are several filesystems out there for which i_sem does
nothing to protect inode->i_size.

Cheers,
  Trond
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