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update Documentation/filesystems/Locking for 2.6.27 changes

In the 2.6.27 circle ->fasync lost the BKL, and the last remaining
->open variant that takes the BKL is also gone.  ->get_sb and ->kill_sb
didn't have BKL forever, so updated the entries while we're at that.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Christoph Hellwig 16 years ago
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      Documentation/filesystems/Locking

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Documentation/filesystems/Locking

@@ -144,8 +144,8 @@ prototypes:
 	void (*kill_sb) (struct super_block *);
 	void (*kill_sb) (struct super_block *);
 locking rules:
 locking rules:
 		may block	BKL
 		may block	BKL
-get_sb		yes		yes
-kill_sb		yes		yes
+get_sb		yes		no
+kill_sb		yes		no
 
 
 ->get_sb() returns error or 0 with locked superblock attached to the vfsmount
 ->get_sb() returns error or 0 with locked superblock attached to the vfsmount
 (exclusive on ->s_umount).
 (exclusive on ->s_umount).
@@ -409,12 +409,12 @@ ioctl:			yes	(see below)
 unlocked_ioctl:		no	(see below)
 unlocked_ioctl:		no	(see below)
 compat_ioctl:		no
 compat_ioctl:		no
 mmap:			no
 mmap:			no
-open:			maybe	(see below)
+open:			no
 flush:			no
 flush:			no
 release:		no
 release:		no
 fsync:			no	(see below)
 fsync:			no	(see below)
 aio_fsync:		no
 aio_fsync:		no
-fasync:			yes	(see below)
+fasync:			no
 lock:			yes
 lock:			yes
 readv:			no
 readv:			no
 writev:			no
 writev:			no
@@ -431,13 +431,6 @@ For many filesystems, it is probably safe to acquire the inode
 semaphore.  Note some filesystems (i.e. remote ones) provide no
 semaphore.  Note some filesystems (i.e. remote ones) provide no
 protection for i_size so you will need to use the BKL.
 protection for i_size so you will need to use the BKL.
 
 
-->open() locking is in-transit: big lock partially moved into the methods.
-The only exception is ->open() in the instances of file_operations that never
-end up in ->i_fop/->proc_fops, i.e. ones that belong to character devices
-(chrdev_open() takes lock before replacing ->f_op and calling the secondary
-method. As soon as we fix the handling of module reference counters all
-instances of ->open() will be called without the BKL.
-
 Note: ext2_release() was *the* source of contention on fs-intensive
 Note: ext2_release() was *the* source of contention on fs-intensive
 loads and dropping BKL on ->release() helps to get rid of that (we still
 loads and dropping BKL on ->release() helps to get rid of that (we still
 grab BKL for cases when we close a file that had been opened r/w, but that
 grab BKL for cases when we close a file that had been opened r/w, but that