Pramfs: XIP Operations
Quoted 10 lines · Jared Hulbert
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I know. It wasn't my intention to introduce it but as I said in my first patch I've done a porting of this code from 2.6.10 and to remove it I need time to analyze well the code to avoid deadlock and so on. If someone would like to help me I'd really appreciate it. However I see the use of BKL even in other recent "mainlined" fs as ext4, so I preferred to move the porting effort on other areas. However it's the first item on my todo list.
Why do you need the lock in
pram_find_and_alloc_blocks()to begin with? Why wouldn't a mutex work?
It's not impossible to use a mutex, but as I said it's inherited from code written for 2.6.10. This function works as pram_get_and_update_block works.
Marco