Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752652AbZG0PbJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:31:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752240AbZG0PbJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:31:09 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:39250 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751253AbZG0PbI (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:31:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:30:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Christoph Hellwig cc: LKML , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Al Viro Subject: Re: [Patch RFC 36/37] fs: Convert bd_mount_sem to mutex In-Reply-To: <20090727152635.GD31597@infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <20090726081459.455111897@linutronix.de> <20090726081558.081388099@linutronix.de> <20090727152635.GD31597@infradead.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 596 Lines: 17 On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. That's why it's RFC :) -- 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/