diff -urNp --exclude CVS --exclude BitKeeper x-ref/include/linux/fs.h x/include/linux/fs.h
--- x-ref/include/linux/fs.h	2003-07-17 01:29:22.000000000 +0200
+++ x/include/linux/fs.h	2003-07-17 01:29:43.000000000 +0200
@@ -1478,6 +1478,7 @@ extern int file_read_actor(read_descript
 extern ssize_t generic_file_read(struct file *, char *, size_t, loff_t *);
 extern int precheck_file_write(struct file *, struct inode *, size_t *, loff_t *);
 extern ssize_t generic_file_write(struct file *, const char *, size_t, loff_t *);
+extern ssize_t generic_file_write_nolock(struct file *, const char *, size_t, loff_t *);
 extern void do_generic_file_read(struct file *, loff_t *, read_descriptor_t *, read_actor_t);
 extern loff_t no_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
 extern loff_t generic_file_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
diff -urNp --exclude CVS --exclude BitKeeper x-ref/kernel/ksyms.c x/kernel/ksyms.c
--- x-ref/kernel/ksyms.c	2003-07-17 01:29:22.000000000 +0200
+++ x/kernel/ksyms.c	2003-07-17 01:29:23.000000000 +0200
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_block_bmap);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_read);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(do_generic_file_read);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_write);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_write_nolock);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_mmap);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_ro_fops);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_buffer_fdatasync);
diff -urNp --exclude CVS --exclude BitKeeper x-ref/mm/filemap.c x/mm/filemap.c
--- x-ref/mm/filemap.c	2003-07-17 01:29:22.000000000 +0200
+++ x/mm/filemap.c	2003-07-17 01:29:23.000000000 +0200
@@ -3100,8 +3100,8 @@ out:
  * file system has to do this all by itself, unfortunately.
  *							okir@monad.swb.de
  */
-ssize_t
-do_generic_file_write(struct file *file,const char *buf,size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+ssize_t generic_file_write_nolock(struct file * file, const char *buf,
+				  size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
 {
 	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mapping;
 	struct inode	*inode = mapping->host;
@@ -3282,7 +3282,7 @@ static int do_odirect_fallback(struct fi
 	int ret, err;
 
 	down(&inode->i_sem);
-	ret = do_generic_file_write(file, buf, count, ppos);
+	ret = generic_file_write_nolock(file, buf, count, ppos);
 	if (ret > 0) {
 		err = do_fdatasync(file);
 		if (err)
@@ -3316,7 +3316,7 @@ generic_file_write(struct file *file,con
 			err = do_odirect_fallback(file, inode, buf, count, ppos);
 	} else {
 		down(&inode->i_sem);
-		err = do_generic_file_write(file, buf, count, ppos);
+		err = generic_file_write_nolock(file, buf, count, ppos);
 		up(&inode->i_sem);
 	}