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    Replace BKL with superblock lock in fat/msdos/vfat · 8f593427
    Linus Torvalds authored
    This replaces the use of the BKL in the FAT family of filesystems with the
    existing superblock lock instead.
    
    The code already appears to do mostly proper locking with its own private
    spinlocks (and mutexes), but while the BKL could possibly have been
    dropped entirely, converting it to use the superblock lock (which is just
    a regular mutex) is the conservative thing to do.
    
    As a per-filesystem mutex, it not only won't have any of the possible
    latency issues related to the BKL, but the lock is obviously private to
    the particular filesystem instance and will thus not cause problems for
    entirely unrelated users like the BKL can.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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