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    BKL: Remove BKL from isofs · 4f819a78
    Arnd Bergmann authored
    
    
    As in other file systems, we can replace the big kernel lock
    with a private mutex in isofs. This means we can now access
    multiple file systems concurrently, but it also means that
    we serialize readdir and lookup across sleeping operations
    which previously released the big kernel lock. This should
    not matter though, as these operations are in practice
    serialized through the hardware access.
    
    The isofs_get_blocks functions now does not take any lock
    any more, it used to recursively get the BKL. After looking
    at the code for hours, I convinced myself that it was never
    needed here anyway, because it only reads constant fields
    of the inode and writes to a buffer head array that is
    at this time only visible to the caller.
    
    The get_sb and fill_super operations do not need the locking
    at all because they operate on a file system that is either
    about to be created or to be destroyed but in either case
    is not visible to other threads.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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