From 8f5934278d1d86590244c2791b28f77d67466007 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 19:53:01 -0700 Subject: Replace BKL with superblock lock in fat/msdos/vfat 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 Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- fs/fat/cache.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/fat/cache.c') diff --git a/fs/fat/cache.c b/fs/fat/cache.c index fda25479af2..3a9ecac8d61 100644 --- a/fs/fat/cache.c +++ b/fs/fat/cache.c @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ void fat_cache_destroy(void) static inline struct fat_cache *fat_cache_alloc(struct inode *inode) { - return kmem_cache_alloc(fat_cache_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); + return kmem_cache_alloc(fat_cache_cachep, GFP_NOFS); } static inline void fat_cache_free(struct fat_cache *cache) -- cgit v1.2.3