Re: [PATCH] Shift BKL into ->statfs()

[Paul Menage]

>On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 06:25:47PM -0700, Paul Menage wrote:
>> This patch removes BKL protection from the invocation of the
>> super_operations ->statfs() method, and shifts it into the filesystems
>> where necessary. Any out-of-tree filesystems may need to take the BKL in
>> their statfs() methods if they were relying on it for synchronisation.
>
>Sure, makes sense to do.  For real credit though, let's see how much we
>need the BKL.  In ext2's statfs, we reference:
>

I'm sure the BKL can be ripped out further, but I preferred not to risk
breakage in this patch due to unfamiliarity with the locking rules for
particular filesystems - I just left the BKL out of those that were 
clearly not touching mutable data. Patches that shrink the BKL usage for 
individual filesystems can be sent (hopefully with copious 
justifications) once this or something like it is applied.

Paul