Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:17:44 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*? |
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On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 09:05:16AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The only place that looked like it _really_ didn't get the kernel lock was > apparently tty_open(), which is admittedly a fairly important part of it ;)
2.5 does hold the BKL on ->open of charater- (and block-) devices.
The real problem is that the big irqlock is gone and mingo just replaced it with local_irq_save & friends, which is not enough. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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