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Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt incorrectly states that the kernel is
locked during the call to statfs (Documentation/filesystems/Locking
correctly says it is not). This patch removes the offending sentence.

remove reference to BKL being held in statfs

Signed-off-by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Adrian McMenamin authored and Al Viro committed Apr 21, 2009
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unfreeze_fs: called when VFS is unlocking a filesystem and making it writable
again.

statfs: called when the VFS needs to get filesystem statistics. This
is called with the kernel lock held
statfs: called when the VFS needs to get filesystem statistics.

remount_fs: called when the filesystem is remounted. This is called
with the kernel lock held
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