Re: [Patch RFC 36/37] fs: Convert bd_mount_sem to mutex

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Jul 27 2009 - 11:31:17 EST



On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 08:20:38AM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > bd_mount_sem is used as mutex so make it a mutex.
>
> Actually we may return to userspace with it held, so the conversion
> is a bad idea. But I have a patch I need to post to completely get
> rid of it.

That's why it's RFC :)

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