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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Missing BKL in sys_chroot() for 2.6
Thanks for the clarification.

Phy


--- Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Phy Prabab wrote:
> >
> > > see what the BKL
> >
> > What does BKL stand for?
>
> "big kernel lock" aka the traditional global kernel
> lock that these days
> is not actually used that much any more. When you
> see "lock_kernel()",
> "unlock_kernel()", that's the BKL.
>
> Linus
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