Commit ed505ee4 authored by Eric Sandeen's avatar Eric Sandeen Committed by Jan Kara

ext3: Remove outdated comment about lock_super()

ext3_fill_super() is no longer called by read_super(), and it is no
longer called with the superblock locked.  The
unlock_super()/lock_super() is no longer present, so this comment is
entirely superfluous.

Port of ext4 commit 32ed5058 by
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>.

CC: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
parent dc52dd3a
......@@ -2014,14 +2014,7 @@ static int ext3_fill_super (struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
}
ext3_setup_super (sb, es, sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY);
/*
* akpm: core read_super() calls in here with the superblock locked.
* That deadlocks, because orphan cleanup needs to lock the superblock
* in numerous places. Here we just pop the lock - it's relatively
* harmless, because we are now ready to accept write_super() requests,
* and aviro says that's the only reason for hanging onto the
* superblock lock.
*/
EXT3_SB(sb)->s_mount_state |= EXT3_ORPHAN_FS;
ext3_orphan_cleanup(sb, es);
EXT3_SB(sb)->s_mount_state &= ~EXT3_ORPHAN_FS;
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