From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
video4linux-list@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 18:01:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080526220154.GA15487@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080526181027.1ff9c758@gaivota>
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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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
video4linux-list@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 18:01:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080526220154.GA15487@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080526181027.1ff9c758@gaivota>
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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Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-22 21:37 [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL Alan Cox
2008-05-22 21:37 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 2:08 ` Andy Walls
2008-05-23 2:08 ` Andy Walls
2008-05-23 6:16 ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-23 6:16 ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-23 6:28 ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-23 6:28 ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-26 16:39 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-26 16:39 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-23 9:09 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 9:09 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-26 16:34 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-26 16:34 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-26 16:46 ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-26 16:46 ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-26 21:14 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-26 21:14 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-06-01 2:34 ` [PATCH] cx18: convert driver to video_ioctl2() (Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL) Andy Walls
2008-06-01 10:15 ` Hans Verkuil
2008-06-01 19:01 ` Andy Walls
2008-06-03 21:20 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-06-03 22:08 ` [ivtv-devel] " Alan Cox
2008-06-04 0:44 ` Andy Walls
2008-06-04 10:02 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 13:56 ` [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL Jonathan Corbet
2008-05-23 15:39 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 15:39 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 16:09 ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-05-23 18:58 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 18:58 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 19:05 ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-23 19:05 ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-25 23:46 ` Mike Isely
2008-05-25 23:46 ` Mike Isely
2008-05-26 16:59 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-26 16:59 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-26 20:23 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-26 20:23 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-26 21:10 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-26 21:10 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-26 22:01 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-05-26 22:01 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-27 13:10 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 13:10 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 15:41 ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-05-27 16:31 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 16:31 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 16:37 ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-05-27 18:59 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 18:59 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 19:26 ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-05-27 19:26 ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-05-27 21:00 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 21:00 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 21:22 ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-05-27 21:22 ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-05-27 23:48 ` Andy Walls
2008-05-27 23:48 ` Andy Walls
2008-05-28 0:46 ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-05-28 0:46 ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-05-28 2:37 ` Andy Walls
2008-05-28 2:37 ` Andy Walls
2008-05-28 2:47 ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-05-28 2:47 ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-05-28 23:30 ` Andy Walls
2008-05-28 8:34 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-28 8:34 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-28 6:13 ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-28 6:13 ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-27 19:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-27 20:24 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 20:24 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 18:14 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-27 18:14 ` Alan Cox
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