Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752495AbZG0P0h (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:26:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752127AbZG0P0g (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:26:36 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:49531 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751855AbZG0P0g (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:26:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:26:35 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: LKML , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Al Viro Subject: Re: [Patch RFC 36/37] fs: Convert bd_mount_sem to mutex Message-ID: <20090727152635.GD31597@infradead.org> References: <20090726081459.455111897@linutronix.de> <20090726081558.081388099@linutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090726081558.081388099@linutronix.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 511 Lines: 12 On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 08:20:38AM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > bd_mount_sem is used as mutex so make it a mutex. Actually we may return to userspace with it held, so the conversion is a bad idea. But I have a patch I need to post to completely get rid of it. -- 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/