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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 04:22:17 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] keys: Discard key spinlock and use RCU for key payload
 [try #3]
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David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
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> The attached patch changes the key implementation in a number of ways:

That worked.

What's with the preempt_enable()/disable() added to __key_link()?  It's not
obvious what is being protected from what, and why.