From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 03:07:08 +0000 (+1100) Subject: [XFS] kill superflous buffer locking (2nd attempt) X-Git-Tag: v2.6.25-rc1~282^2~15 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a9759f2de38a3443d5107bddde03b4f3f550060e;p=pandora-kernel.git [XFS] kill superflous buffer locking (2nd attempt) There is no need to lock any page in xfs_buf.c because we operate on our own address_space and all locking is covered by the buffer semaphore. If we ever switch back to main blockdeive address_space as suggested e.g. for fsblock with a similar scheme the locking will have to be totally revised anyway because the current scheme is neither correct nor coherent with itself. SGI-PV: 971186 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30156a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy --- Reading git-diff-tree failed