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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index af1608070cd..61c98f03baa 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking | |||
| @@ -429,8 +429,9 @@ check_flags: no | |||
| 429 | implementations. If your fs is not using generic_file_llseek, you | 429 | implementations. If your fs is not using generic_file_llseek, you |
| 430 | need to acquire and release the appropriate locks in your ->llseek(). | 430 | need to acquire and release the appropriate locks in your ->llseek(). |
| 431 | For many filesystems, it is probably safe to acquire the inode | 431 | For many filesystems, it is probably safe to acquire the inode |
| 432 | mutex. Note some filesystems (i.e. remote ones) provide no | 432 | mutex or just to use i_size_read() instead. |
| 433 | protection for i_size so you will need to use the BKL. | 433 | Note: this does not protect the file->f_pos against concurrent modifications |
| 434 | since this is something the userspace has to take care about. | ||
| 434 | 435 | ||
| 435 | Note: ext2_release() was *the* source of contention on fs-intensive | 436 | Note: ext2_release() was *the* source of contention on fs-intensive |
| 436 | loads and dropping BKL on ->release() helps to get rid of that (we still | 437 | loads and dropping BKL on ->release() helps to get rid of that (we still |