* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Subject: [patch] block: remove BKL dependency from drivers/block/loop.c
> From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> the block loopback device is protected by lo->lo_ctl_mutex and it does
> not need to hold the BKL anywhere. Convert its ioctl to unlocked_ioctl
> and remove the BKL acquire/release from its compat_ioctl.
hm, i must have messed up this bit:
> +static long lo_ioctl(struct file * file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
> {
> + struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
> struct loop_device *lo = inode->i_bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
because it now crashes there ... so forget this patch for now.
Ingo
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