[Labeled-nfs] Why does nfs_file/dir operations need to take lock_kernel() .....

Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust at fys.uio.no
Thu Dec 20 13:01:57 EST 2007


On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 22:35 +0545, kanishk rastogi wrote:
> Why does nfs_file/dir operations need to take lock_kernel() .......

Historical reasons: we're still not done removing it. I think most if
not all of the code is now protected by more fine-grained spinlocks, but
we still need to run an audit before we remove the BKL.

Trond



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