linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip] remove the BKL: Replace BKL in mount/umount syscalls with a mutex

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Message-ID: <20090417113142.3151579b@bike.lwn.net>
Date:	Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:31:42 -0600
From:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...ware.it>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] remove the BKL: Replace BKL in mount/umount
 syscalls with a mutex

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:21:06 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> And I know we had patches for file locking BKL-removal at some point. What 
> happened to them? Were they just broken, or forgotten, or waiting in Jon's 
> tree, or what?

Not in my tree, I've not seen them.  I could maybe take a look at that,
I've just about recovered from my fasync experience...:)

jon
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