Re: [PATCH] remove BKL from ext2's readdir

[Alex Tomas]

>>>>> Andrew Morton (AM) writes:

 AM> grep again.

 AM> I've made the change to ext2 and ext3.  Other filesystems will
 AM> require some thought to verify that the lock_kernel()s are not
 AM> protecting against some other random codepath.

hmm:

[root@proto edited]# head Makefile 
VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 5
SUBLEVEL = 64
EXTRAVERSION =

fs/ext2/dir.c:

struct file_operations ext2_dir_operations = {
        .read           = generic_read_dir,
        .readdir        = ext2_readdir,
        .ioctl          = ext2_ioctl,
        .fsync          = ext2_sync_file,
};

fs/read_write.c:

static inline loff_t llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
{
        loff_t (*fn)(struct file *, loff_t, int);

        fn = default_llseek;
        if (file->f_op && file->f_op->llseek)
                fn = file->f_op->llseek;
        return fn(file, offset, origin);
}