Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754958AbZKBKNx (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Nov 2009 05:13:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754898AbZKBKNu (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Nov 2009 05:13:50 -0500 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:47258 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754364AbZKBKG7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Nov 2009 05:06:59 -0500 From: Jan Blunck To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Matthew Wilcox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Blunck , "Theodore Ts'o" , Andreas Dilger , Al Viro , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 08/27] BKL: Remove BKL from ext4 filesystem Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:04:48 +0100 Message-Id: <1257156307-24175-9-git-send-email-jblunck@suse.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.4.2 In-Reply-To: <1257156307-24175-1-git-send-email-jblunck@suse.de> References: <1257156307-24175-1-git-send-email-jblunck@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2815 Lines: 102 The BKL is still used in ext4_put_super(), ext4_fill_super() and ext4_remount(). All three calles are protected against concurrent calls by the s_umount rw semaphore of struct super_block. Therefore the BKL is protecting nothing in this case. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck --- fs/ext4/super.c | 16 +--------------- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index 9db81d2..328e9dc 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ #include #include #include -#include #include #include #include @@ -599,7 +598,6 @@ static void ext4_put_super(struct super_block *sb) destroy_workqueue(sbi->dio_unwritten_wq); lock_super(sb); - lock_kernel(); if (sb->s_dirt) ext4_commit_super(sb, 1); @@ -665,7 +663,6 @@ static void ext4_put_super(struct super_block *sb) * Now that we are completely done shutting down the * superblock, we need to actually destroy the kobject. */ - unlock_kernel(); unlock_super(sb); kobject_put(&sbi->s_kobj); wait_for_completion(&sbi->s_kobj_unregister); @@ -2328,19 +2325,14 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) int err; unsigned int journal_ioprio = DEFAULT_JOURNAL_IOPRIO; - lock_kernel(); - sbi = kzalloc(sizeof(*sbi), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!sbi) { - unlock_kernel(); + if (!sbi) return -ENOMEM; - } sbi->s_blockgroup_lock = kzalloc(sizeof(struct blockgroup_lock), GFP_KERNEL); if (!sbi->s_blockgroup_lock) { kfree(sbi); - unlock_kernel(); return -ENOMEM; } sb->s_fs_info = sbi; @@ -2352,8 +2344,6 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) sbi->s_sectors_written_start = part_stat_read(sb->s_bdev->bd_part, sectors[1]); - unlock_kernel(); - /* Cleanup superblock name */ for (cp = sb->s_id; (cp = strchr(cp, '/'));) *cp = '!'; @@ -3456,8 +3446,6 @@ static int ext4_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data) int i; #endif - lock_kernel(); - /* Store the original options */ lock_super(sb); old_sb_flags = sb->s_flags; @@ -3587,7 +3575,6 @@ static int ext4_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data) kfree(old_opts.s_qf_names[i]); #endif unlock_super(sb); - unlock_kernel(); return 0; restore_opts: @@ -3608,7 +3595,6 @@ restore_opts: } #endif unlock_super(sb); - unlock_kernel(); return err; } -- 1.6.4.2 -- 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/