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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-03-26 16:14:02 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-03-26 16:14:02 -0700
commit8e9d2089723d08d51e66c5eea49253d76e27941e (patch)
treecf15609d5eeb0c1f3a39231d8ce793d3c8ad0ed0 /Documentation/filesystems
parentba1eb95cf3cc666769afe42eaa15a3a34ae82f94 (diff)
parent60aa49243d09afc873f082567d2e3c16634ced84 (diff)
Merge branch 'bkl-removal' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
* 'bkl-removal' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: Rationalize fasync return values Move FASYNC bit handling to f_op->fasync() Use f_lock to protect f_flags Rename struct file->f_ep_lock
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index ec6a9392a17..4e78ce67784 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -437,8 +437,11 @@ grab BKL for cases when we close a file that had been opened r/w, but that
can and should be done using the internal locking with smaller critical areas).
Current worst offender is ext2_get_block()...
-->fasync() is a mess. This area needs a big cleanup and that will probably
-affect locking.
+->fasync() is called without BKL protection, and is responsible for
+maintaining the FASYNC bit in filp->f_flags. Most instances call
+fasync_helper(), which does that maintenance, so it's not normally
+something one needs to worry about. Return values > 0 will be mapped to
+zero in the VFS layer.
->readdir() and ->ioctl() on directories must be changed. Ideally we would
move ->readdir() to inode_operations and use a separate method for directory