[PATCH] 2.3.99-pre6: fix for SMP race in getblk()

From: Steve Dodd (steved@loth.demon.co.uk)
Date: Sat May 06 2000 - 11:22:45 EDT

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Hi Linus,

I believe the attached patch fixes a potential race in buffer.c:getblk() on
SMP machines. Most callers currently take the big kernel lock first, but
some don't - block_write, for example. I also nuked the comment at the top
of get_hash_table, because it really doesn't seem to make sense..

text/plain attachment: getblk-new.diff

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