Commit adaae721 authored by Christoph Hellwig's avatar Christoph Hellwig Committed by Linus Torvalds

update Documentation/filesystems/Locking for 2.6.27 changes

In the 2.6.27 circle ->fasync lost the BKL, and the last remaining
->open variant that takes the BKL is also gone.  ->get_sb and ->kill_sb
didn't have BKL forever, so updated the entries while we're at that.
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 82a28c79
......@@ -144,8 +144,8 @@ prototypes:
void (*kill_sb) (struct super_block *);
locking rules:
may block BKL
get_sb yes yes
kill_sb yes yes
get_sb yes no
kill_sb yes no
->get_sb() returns error or 0 with locked superblock attached to the vfsmount
(exclusive on ->s_umount).
......@@ -409,12 +409,12 @@ ioctl: yes (see below)
unlocked_ioctl: no (see below)
compat_ioctl: no
mmap: no
open: maybe (see below)
open: no
flush: no
release: no
fsync: no (see below)
aio_fsync: no
fasync: yes (see below)
fasync: no
lock: yes
readv: no
writev: no
......@@ -431,13 +431,6 @@ For many filesystems, it is probably safe to acquire the inode
semaphore. Note some filesystems (i.e. remote ones) provide no
protection for i_size so you will need to use the BKL.
->open() locking is in-transit: big lock partially moved into the methods.
The only exception is ->open() in the instances of file_operations that never
end up in ->i_fop/->proc_fops, i.e. ones that belong to character devices
(chrdev_open() takes lock before replacing ->f_op and calling the secondary
method. As soon as we fix the handling of module reference counters all
instances of ->open() will be called without the BKL.
Note: ext2_release() was *the* source of contention on fs-intensive
loads and dropping BKL on ->release() helps to get rid of that (we still
grab BKL for cases when we close a file that had been opened r/w, but that
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