Jared Hulbert wrote: > > I know. It wasn't my intention to introduce it but as I said in my > > first patch I've done a porting of this code from 2.6.10 and to > > remove it I need time to analyze well the code to avoid deadlock and > > so on. If someone would like to help me I'd really appreciate it. > > However I see the use of BKL even in other recent "mainlined" fs as > > ext4, so I preferred to move the porting effort on other areas. > > However it's the first item on my todo list.
> Why do you need the lock in pram_find_and_alloc_blocks() to begin > with? Why wouldn't a mutex work? It's not impossible to use a mutex, but as I said it's inherited from code written for 2.6.10. This function works as pram_get_and_update_block works. Marco -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
