Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:31:10 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] TTY patches for 2.6.33-git |
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On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > Just patched the following in and it catched your problem nicely. With > > your AB/BA fix patch applied everything is fine. > > Actually, the patch I just suggested might be better. Admittedly the > CONFIG_PREEMPT case is the more important one (and the one that will catch > more cases), but even without preemptyion the might_sleep() in > _lock_kernel() (one underscore) would trigger on the case of somebody > doing lock_kernel with local interrupts disabled.
Fair enough.
tglx
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