tree 485b1a369c1b879a2dd556e44bd30a23e6bfd87f
parent ca572727dbb945e443564029a495157fd2e72995
author Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> 1274910294 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1274976776 -0700

Documentation/filesystems/Locking: update documentation on llseek() wrt BKL

The inode's i_size is not protected by the big kernel lock.  Therefore it
does not make sense to recommend taking the BKL in filesystems llseek
operations.  Instead it should use the inode's mutex or use just use
i_size_read() instead.  Add a note that this is not protecting
file->f_pos.

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>