From: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 21:44:54 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Documentation/filesystems/Locking: update documentation on llseek() wrt BKL
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.35-rc1~54
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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>
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