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

[kanishk rastogi]

On Dec 20, 2007 11:46 PM, Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust at fys.uio.no> wrote:
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> On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 22:35 +0545, kanishk rastogi wrote:
> > Why does nfs_file/dir operations need to take lock_kernel() .......
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> Historical reasons: we're still not done removing it. I think most if
is there a place where i can find these "historic reasons"  ...

> 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.
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regards
kanishk

> Trond
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