Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:56:46 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325 |
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 03:32:49PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:51:04AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > OK, replacing a lock_kernel() with a spin_lock(&global_lock) is pretty > > straightforwad. But it's really really sad. It basically leaves a great > > big FIXME in there. It'd be better to fix it. > > > Umm, we've been discussiong this in and out a guestimated million times. > > Let's go forward with Jon's patch which is on obvious improvement and > if it shows problems later on we can revisit it.
The point was that we already have a better patch from Oleg.
-Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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