linux-stable/fs/autofs
jan Blunck ca572727db fs/: do not fallback to default_llseek() when readdir() uses BKL
Do not use the fallback default_llseek() if the readdir operation of the
filesystem still uses the big kernel lock.

Since llseek() modifies
file->f_pos of the directory directly it may need locking to not confuse
readdir which usually uses file->f_pos directly as well

Since the special characteristics of the BKL (unlocked on schedule) are
not necessary in this case, the inode mutex can be used for locking as
provided by generic_file_llseek().  This is only possible since all
filesystems, except reiserfs, either use a directory as a flat file or
with disk address offsets.  Reiserfs on the other hand uses a 32bit hash
off the filename as the offset so generic_file_llseek() can get used as
well since the hash is always smaller than sb->s_maxbytes (= (512 << 32) -
blocksize).

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:56 -07:00
..
autofs_i.h iget: stop autofs from using iget() and read_inode() 2008-02-07 08:42:27 -08:00
dirhash.c trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons 2009-09-21 15:14:58 +02:00
init.c [PATCH] autofs3: Make sure all dentries refs are released before calling kill_anon_super() 2006-10-20 10:26:38 -07:00
inode.c zero i_uid/i_gid on inode allocation 2009-01-05 11:54:28 -05:00
Kconfig fs/Kconfig: move autofs, autofs4 out 2009-01-22 13:15:54 +03:00
Makefile Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
root.c fs/: do not fallback to default_llseek() when readdir() uses BKL 2010-05-27 09:12:56 -07:00
symlink.c [PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 1 2007-02-12 09:48:46 -08:00
waitq.c sparse pointer use of zero as null 2007-10-18 14:37:31 -07:00