Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Feb 2000 13:40:54 +0000 (GMT) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: [patch-2.3.43-pre5] optimized vhangup(2) |
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On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > > The patch below does this to fs/open.c:sys_vhangup() > > > c) reduces the length of holding big kernel lock > > > - lock_kernel(); > > > - unlock_kernel(); > > Er.. removes the BKL completely. I suspect you didn't mean > to do that. >
I did mean it. Look all the way down the call stack and observe the BKL (thanks for the new abbreviation) taken at do_tty_hangup() level. In fact I mentioned that function as a hint that one should look there :)
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