Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
This saves a pointer memory access (dentry->d_op) in common path lookup
situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
have d_op but not the particular operation.
Patched with:
git grep -E '[.>]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)->d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&\1, \2);/' -i
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:
- Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for
permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must.
- sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want
to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in
the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking.
- Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code
- Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the
page lock to follow page->mapping.
The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple
creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to
reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts
kicking over, this increases to about 20%.
In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated
during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is
not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller.
The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking,
so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in
real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I
doubt it will be a problem.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
The lock_kernel in fat_put_super is not needed because
it only protects the super block itself and we know that
no other thread can reach it because we are about to
kfree the object.
In the two fill_super functions, this converts the locking
to use lock_super like elsewhere in the fat code. This
is probably not needed either, but is consistent and puts
us on the safe side.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
Move the call to vmtruncate to get rid of accessive blocks to the callers
in preparation of the new truncate sequence and rename the non-truncating
version to cont_write_begin.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Move the call to vmtruncate to get rid of accessive blocks to the callers
in prepearation of the new truncate calling sequence. This was only done
for DIO_LOCKING filesystems, so the __blockdev_direct_IO_newtrunc variant
was not needed anyway. Get rid of blockdev_direct_IO_no_locking and
its _newtrunc variant while at it as just opencoding the two additional
paramters is shorted than the name suffix.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Other users doesn't check NULL explicitly. So, these doesn't also
check to remove inconsistency.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
This gives the filesystem more information about the writeback that
is happening. Trond requested this for the NFS unstable write handling,
and other filesystems might benefit from this too by beeing able to
distinguish between the different callers in more detail.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
I found that the length of a file name when created cannot exceed 255
characters, yet, pathconf(), via statfs(), returns the maximum as 260.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Dankwardt <k@kcomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Currently shipping discard capable SSDs and arrays have rather sub-optimal
implementations of the command and can the use of it can cause massive
slowdowns. Make issueing these commands option as it's already in btrfs
and gfs2.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: tweaks, and add "discard" to fat_show_options]
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6:
fat: Check s_dirt in fat_sync_fs()
vfat: change the default from shortname=lower to shortname=mixed
fat/nls: Fix handling of utf8 invalid char
Most call sites of unload_nls() do:
if (nls)
unload_nls(nls);
Check the pointer inside unload_nls() like we do in kfree() and
simplify the call sites.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
If we didn't check sb->s_dirt, it will update the FSINFO
unconditionally. It will reduce the filetime of flash base device.
So, this checks sb->s_dirt. sb->s_dirt is racy, however FSINFO is just
hint. So even if there is race, and we hit it, it would not become big
problem.
And this also is as workaround of suspend problem.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Because, with "shortname=lower", copying one FAT filesystem tree to
another FAT filesystem tree using Linux results in semantically
different filesystems. (E.g.: Filenames which were once "all
uppercase" are now "all lowercase").
So, this changes the default of "shortname=lower" to "shortname=mixed".
Signed-off-by: Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net>
[change fat_show_options()]
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
(ce3b0f8d5c2203301fc87f3aaaed73e5819e2a48: New helper - current_umask())
is removing the opts->fs_dmask, probably it's a cut-and-paste
miss or something.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
* mark directory data blocks as assoc. metadata
* add new inode to deal with FAT, mark FAT blocks as assoc. metadata of that
* now ->fsync() is trivial both for files and directories
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Push down lock_super into ->write_super instances and remove it from the
caller.
Following filesystem don't need ->s_lock in ->write_super and are skipped:
* bfs, nilfs2 - no other uses of s_lock and have internal locks in
->write_super
* ext2 - uses BKL in ext2_write_super and has internal calls without s_lock
* reiserfs - no other uses of s_lock as has reiserfs_write_lock (BKL) in
->write_super
* xfs - no other uses of s_lock and uses internal lock (buffer lock on
superblock buffer) to serialize ->write_super. Also xfs_fs_write_super
is superflous and will go away in the next merge window
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Move BKL into ->put_super from the only caller. A couple of
filesystems had trivial enough ->put_super (only kfree and NULLing of
s_fs_info + stuff in there) to not get any locking: coda, cramfs, efs,
hugetlbfs, omfs, qnx4, shmem, all others got the full treatment. Most
of them probably don't need it, but I'd rather sort that out individually.
Preferably after all the other BKL pushdowns in that area.
[AV: original used to move lock_super() down as well; these changes are
removed since we don't do lock_super() at all in generic_shutdown_super()
now]
[AV: fuse, btrfs and xfs are known to need no damn BKL, exempt]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We just did a full fs writeout using sync_filesystem before, and if
that's not enough for the filesystem it can perform it's own writeout
in ->put_super, which many filesystems already do.
Move a call to foofs_write_super into every foofs_put_super for now to
guarantee identical behaviour until it's cleaned up by the individual
filesystem maintainers.
Exceptions:
- affs already has identical copy & pasted code at the beginning of
affs_put_super so no need to do it twice.
- xfs does the right thing without it and I have changes pending for
the xfs tree touching this are so I don't really need conflicts
here..
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
On severe errors FAT remounts itself in read-only mode. Allow to
specify FAT fs desired behavior through 'errors' mount option:
panic, continue or remount read-only.
`mount -t [fat|vfat] -o errors=[panic,remount-ro,continue] \
<bdev> <mount point>`
This is analog to ext2 fs 'errors' mount option.
Signed-off-by: Denis Karpov <ext-denis.2.karpov@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
Remove two unneeded exports and make two symbols static in fs/mpage.c
Cleanup after commit 585d3bc06f
Trim includes of fdtable.h
Don't crap into descriptor table in binfmt_som
Trim includes in binfmt_elf
Don't mess with descriptor table in load_elf_binary()
Get rid of indirect include of fs_struct.h
New helper - current_umask()
check_unsafe_exec() doesn't care about signal handlers sharing
New locking/refcounting for fs_struct
Take fs_struct handling to new file (fs/fs_struct.c)
Get rid of bumping fs_struct refcount in pivot_root(2)
Kill unsharing fs_struct in __set_personality()
Make fat return f_fsid info for statfs(2).
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <coly.li@suse.de>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
On swapon() path, it has already i_mutex. So, this uses i_alloc_sem
instead of it.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Reported-by: Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6:
fat: make sure to set d_ops in fat_get_parent
fat: fix duplicate addition of ->llseek handler
fat: drop negative dentry on rename() path
Conflicts:
security/keys/internal.h
security/keys/process_keys.c
security/keys/request_key.c
Fixed conflicts above by using the non 'tsk' versions.
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.
Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().
Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id(). In some places it makes more
sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
addressed by later patches.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
fat_get_parent needs to setup the dentry operations, otherwise we might
lose them when the NFS server needs to reconnect out of cache inodes.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
i_pos is 64bits value, hence it's not atomic to update.
Important place is fat_write_inode() only, other places without lock
are just for printk().
This adds lock for "BITS_PER_LONG == 32" kernel.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mmu_private is 64bits value, hence it's not atomic to update.
So, the access rule for mmu_private is we must hold ->i_mutex. But,
fat_get_block() path doesn't follow the rule on non-allocation path.
This fixes by using i_size instead if non-allocation path.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fat_get_cluster() assumes the requested blocknr isn't truncated during
read. _fat_bmap() doesn't follow this rule.
This protects it by ->i_mutex.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
FAT has the ATTR_RO (read-only) attribute. But on Windows, the ATTR_RO
of the directory will be just ignored actually, and is used by only
applications as flag. E.g. it's setted for the customized folder by
Explorer.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa969337.aspx
This adds "rodir" option. If user specified it, ATTR_RO is used as
read-only flag even if it's the directory. Otherwise, inode->i_mode
is not used to hold ATTR_RO (i.e. fat_mode_can_save_ro() returns 0).
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds three helpers:
fat_make_attrs() - makes FAT attributes from inode.
fat_make_mode() - makes mode_t from FAT attributes.
fat_save_attrs() - saves FAT attributes to inode.
Then this replaces: MSDOS_MKMODE() by fat_make_mode(), fat_attr() by
fat_make_attrs(), ->i_attrs = attr & ATTR_UNUSED by fat_save_attrs().
And for root inode, those is used with ATTR_DIR instead of bogus
ATTR_NONE.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use fat_detach() instead of opencoding it.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fat_hash() is using the algorithm known as bad. Instead of it, this
uses hash_32(). The following is the summary of test.
old hash:
hash func (1000 times): 33489 cycles
total inodes in hash table: 70926
largest bucket contains: 696
smallest bucket contains: 54
new hash:
hash func (1000 times): 33129 cycles
total inodes in hash table: 70926
largest bucket contains: 315
smallest bucket contains: 236
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This cleans date_dos2unix()/fat_date_unix2dos() up. New code should be
much more readable.
And this fixes those old functions. Those doesn't handle 2100
correctly. 2100 isn't leap year, but old one handles it as leap year.
Also, with this, centi sec is handled and is fixed.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This splits __KERNEL__ stuff in include/msdos_fs.h into fs/fat/fat.h.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Nothing uses prepare_write or commit_write. Remove them from the tree
completely.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: schedule simple_prepare_write() for unexporting]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is a much better version of a previous patch to make the parser
tables constant. Rather than changing the typedef, we put the "const" in
all the various places where its required, allowing the __initconst
exception for nfsroot which was the cause of the previous trouble.
This was posted for review some time ago and I believe its been in -mm
since then.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There was another FAT BKL conversion deadlock reported by Bart
Trojanowski due to the BKL being used as a recursive lock by FAT, which
was missed because it only triggers with 'sync' (or 'dirsync') mounts.
The recursion worked for the BKL, but after the conversion to lock_super
(which uses a mutex), it just deadlocks.
Thanks to Bart for debugging this and testing the fix. The lock
debugging information from the original report:
=============================================
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
2.6.27-rc3-bisect-00448-ga7f5aaf #16
---------------------------------------------
mv/4020 is trying to acquire lock:
(&type->s_lock_key#9){--..}, at: [<c01a90fe>] lock_super+0x1e/0x20
but task is already holding lock:
(&type->s_lock_key#9){--..}, at: [<c01a90fe>] lock_super+0x1e/0x20
other info that might help us debug this:
3 locks held by mv/4020:
#0: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9/1){--..}, at: [<c01b2336>] do_unlinkat+0x66/0x140
#1: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9){--..}, at: [<c01b0954>] vfs_unlink+0x84/0x110
#2: (&type->s_lock_key#9){--..}, at: [<c01a90fe>] lock_super+0x1e/0x20
stack backtrace:
Pid: 4020, comm: mv Not tainted 2.6.27-rc3-bisect-00448-ga7f5aaf #16
[<c014e694>] validate_chain+0x984/0xea0
[<c0108d70>] ? native_sched_clock+0x0/0xf0
[<c014ee9c>] __lock_acquire+0x2ec/0x9b0
[<c014f5cf>] lock_acquire+0x6f/0x90
[<c01a90fe>] ? lock_super+0x1e/0x20
[<c044e5fd>] mutex_lock_nested+0xad/0x300
[<c01a90fe>] ? lock_super+0x1e/0x20
[<c01a90fe>] ? lock_super+0x1e/0x20
[<c01a90fe>] lock_super+0x1e/0x20
[<f8b3a700>] fat_write_inode+0x60/0x2b0 [fat]
[<c0450878>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x48/0x80
[<f8b3a953>] ? fat_sync_inode+0x3/0x20 [fat]
[<f8b3a962>] fat_sync_inode+0x12/0x20 [fat]
[<f8b37c7e>] fat_remove_entries+0xbe/0x120 [fat]
[<f8b422ef>] vfat_unlink+0x5f/0x90 [vfat]
[<f8b42290>] ? vfat_unlink+0x0/0x90 [vfat]
[<c01b0968>] vfs_unlink+0x98/0x110
[<c01b2400>] do_unlinkat+0x130/0x140
[<c016a8f5>] ? audit_syscall_entry+0x105/0x150
[<c01b253b>] sys_unlinkat+0x3b/0x40
[<c01040d3>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x3f
=======================
where the deadlock is due to the nesting of lock_super from vfat_unlink
to fat_write_inode:
- do_unlinkat
- vfs_unlink
- vfat_unlink
* lock_super
- fat_remove_entries
- fat_sync_inode
- fat_write_inode
* lock_super
and the fix is to simply remove the use of lock_super() in fat_write_inode.
The lock_super() there had been just an automatic conversion of the
kernel lock to the superblock lock, but no locking was actually needed
there, since the code in fat_write_inode already protected all relevant
accesses with a spinlock (sbi->inode_hash_lock to be exact). The only
code inside the BKL (and thus the superblock lock) was accesses tp local
variables or calls to functions that have long been SMP-safe (i.e.
sb_bread, mark_buffe_dirty and brlese).
Bart reports:
"Looks good. I ran 10 parallel processes creating 1M files truncating
them, writing to them again and then deleting them. This patch fixes
the issue I ran into.
Signed-off-by: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>"
Reported-and-tested-by: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are
themselves multiplexeres. Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses
passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object.
Non-trivial places are:
arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
This is flag day, yes.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Provide a new mount option ("tz=UTC") for DOS (vfat/msdos) filesystems,
allowing timestamps to be in coordinated universal time (UTC) rather than
local time in applications where doing this is advantageous.
In particular, portable devices that use fat/vfat (such as digital
cameras) can benefit from using UTC in their internal clocks, thus
avoiding daylight saving time errors and general time ambiguity issues.
The user of the device does not have to worry about changing the time when
moving from place or when daylight saving changes.
The new mount option, when set, disables the counter-adjustment that Linux
currently makes to FAT timestamp info in anticipation of the normal
userspace time zone correction. When used in this new mode, all daylight
saving time and time zone handling is done in userspace as is normal for
many other filesystems (like ext3). The default mode, which remains
unchanged, is still appropriate when mounting volumes written in Windows
(because of its use of local time).
I originally based this patch on one submitted last year by Paul Collins,
but I updated it to work with current source and changed variable/option
naming. Ogawa Hirofumi (who maintains these filesystems) and I discussed
this patch at length on lkml, and he suggested using the option name in
the attached version of the patch. Barry Bouwsma pointed out a good
addition to the patch as well.
Signed-off-by: Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Collins <paul@ondioline.org>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Barry Bouwsma <free_beer_for_all@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Current parse_options() exits too early. We need to run the code of
bottom in this function even if users doesn't specify options.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This replaces the use of the BKL in the FAT family of filesystems with the
existing superblock lock instead.
The code already appears to do mostly proper locking with its own private
spinlocks (and mutexes), but while the BKL could possibly have been
dropped entirely, converting it to use the superblock lock (which is just
a regular mutex) is the conservative thing to do.
As a per-filesystem mutex, it not only won't have any of the possible
latency issues related to the BKL, but the lock is obviously private to
the particular filesystem instance and will thus not cause problems for
entirely unrelated users like the BKL can.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Nick Piggin