linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 15/20] ufs: remove the BKL

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Message-Id: <201101261353.21046.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:53:20 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@...l.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/20] ufs: remove the BKL

On Wednesday 26 January 2011, Nick Bowler wrote:
> The sbi->mutex lock used by these functions is never initialized, which
> causes an insta-crash on mount.  With a mutex_init call added to
> ufs_fill_super, there are no obvious problems with my read-only
> mounts after some (very light) testing.

Thanks for the testing!

I fixed it up now and pushed the new version to the "final" branch of my
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl.git tree.

	Arnd
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