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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/27] BKL: Remove BKL from ext4 filesystem
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On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 11:04:48AM +0100, Jan Blunck wrote:
> 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 <jblunck@suse.de>

Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

						- Ted
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