Re: [PATCH 1/3, RFC] misc char dev BKL pushdown

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From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Monday, May 19, 2008 - 5:21 pm

Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> wrote:


The existence of a spinlock is a good sign.  But, until somebody has
looked at the code and verified that said lock is really protecting
everything, it's best to leave the BKL protection (which has always been
there, just at a higher level) in place.

jon
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Re: [announce] &quot;kill the Big Kernel Lock (BKL)&quot; tree, Frederik Deweerdt, (Wed May 14, 1:05 pm)
[PATCH, RFC] char dev BKL pushdown , Jonathan Corbet, (Fri May 16, 8:44 am)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] char dev BKL pushdown, Christoph Hellwig, (Fri May 16, 8:49 am)
[PATCH] kill empty chardev open/release methods, Christoph Hellwig, (Fri May 16, 9:03 am)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] char dev BKL pushdown, Alan Cox, (Fri May 16, 9:22 am)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] char dev BKL pushdown , Linus Torvalds, (Fri May 16, 9:30 am)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] char dev BKL pushdown , Jonathan Corbet, (Fri May 16, 9:43 am)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] char dev BKL pushdown, Arnd Bergmann, (Sat May 17, 2:15 pm)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] char dev BKL pushdown , Linus Torvalds, (Sat May 17, 2:58 pm)
Re: [PATCH] kill empty chardev open/release methods , Jonathan Corbet, (Sun May 18, 12:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH] kill empty chardev open/release methods, Alan Cox, (Sun May 18, 12:58 pm)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] char dev BKL pushdown , Jonathan Corbet, (Sun May 18, 1:07 pm)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] char dev BKL pushdown , Jonathan Corbet, (Sun May 18, 1:26 pm)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] char dev BKL pushdown, Arnd Bergmann, (Mon May 19, 4:07 pm)
[PATCH 1/3, RFC] misc char dev BKL pushdown, Arnd Bergmann, (Mon May 19, 4:26 pm)
[PATCH 3/3, RFC] remove BKL from misc_open(), Arnd Bergmann, (Mon May 19, 4:34 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/3, RFC] misc char dev BKL pushdown, Mike Frysinger, (Mon May 19, 5:07 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/3, RFC] misc char dev BKL pushdown , Jonathan Corbet, (Mon May 19, 5:21 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/3, RFC] misc char dev BKL pushdown, Mike Frysinger, (Mon May 19, 5:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/3, RFC] misc char dev BKL pushdown, Alan Cox, (Tue May 20, 1:46 am)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] char dev BKL pushdown , Jonathan Corbet, (Tue May 20, 8:13 am)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] char dev BKL pushdown, Arnd Bergmann, (Tue May 20, 10:21 am)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] char dev BKL pushdown, Alan Cox, (Tue May 20, 11:51 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/3, RFC] misc char dev BKL pushdown, Mike Frysinger, (Tue May 20, 4:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/3, RFC] misc char dev BKL pushdown , Jonathan Corbet, (Tue May 20, 4:25 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/3, RFC] misc char dev BKL pushdown, Mike Frysinger, (Wed May 21, 9:22 am)