Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 May 2008 18:01:54 -0400 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL |
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On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 06:10:27PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > The hardest and optimal scenario is to look inside all drivers, fix the locks > (and pray for a further patch to not break them). I'm afraid that this is a long > term strategy.
Ultimately that is where you end up.
> For example, a very simple scenario would simply replace BKL by one mutex. > This way, just one ioctl could be handled at the same time. This is something
video2_ioctl_serialized() ?
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