Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:13:38 +0200 (CEST) | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: [GIT, RFC] Killing the Big Kernel Lock |
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On 27 Mar, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Saturday 27 March 2010 00:47:33 Stefan Richter wrote: >> firewire-core and raw1394 do not actually require the BKL, they only >> miss to declare their files as not seekable. I will post patches which >> change these accordingly. > > Your patches look good, but it would be helpful to also set .llseek = no_llseek > in the file operations, because that is much easier to grep for than > only the nonseekable_open. While it's technically a NOP on the presence of > nonseekable_open, it will help that I don't accidentally apply my patch on > top of yours.
I pushed modified versions of these patches out to linux1394-2.6.git now (master and for-next branch, on top of unrelated firewire updates). They contain the explicit .llseek = no_llseek now.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=3ac26b2ee30005930117fe6a180c139c5f300faf http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=7cfe21aae155c26193fde617dc61d37a79a63f86 -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-=- -=-- -=-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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