From: Andrew Morton <akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:55:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090127165504.53ed7a2d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090123045646.GK15750-qrUzlfsMFqo/4alezvVtWx2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:56:46 +0100
Andi Kleen <andi-Vw/NltI1exuRpAAqCnN02g@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
Where is this patch?
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: hch@infradead.org, corbet@lwn.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
andi@firstfloor.org, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, oleg@redhat.com,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:55:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090127165504.53ed7a2d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090123045646.GK15750@one.firstfloor.org>
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:56:46 +0100
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
Where is this patch?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-28 0:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-15 22:32 [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325 Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-15 22:32 ` Jonathan Corbet
[not found] ` <20090115153211.663df310-vw3g6Xz/EtPk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-22 14:51 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-22 14:51 ` Andrew Morton
[not found] ` <20090122065104.2787df2d.akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-22 16:09 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-22 16:09 ` Andi Kleen
[not found] ` <20090122160935.GI15750-qrUzlfsMFqo/4alezvVtWx2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-23 5:21 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-23 5:21 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-22 20:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-01-22 20:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20090122203248.GA20159-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-23 4:56 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-23 4:56 ` Andi Kleen
[not found] ` <20090123045646.GK15750-qrUzlfsMFqo/4alezvVtWx2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-28 0:53 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-28 0:53 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-28 0:55 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-01-28 0:55 ` Andrew Morton
[not found] ` <20090127165504.53ed7a2d.akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-28 3:14 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-01-28 3:14 ` Oleg Nesterov
[not found] ` <20090128031439.GA11025-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-28 3:57 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-28 3:57 ` Jonathan Corbet
[not found] ` <20090127205739.1384343f-vw3g6Xz/EtPk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-28 4:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-01-28 4:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
[not found] ` <20090128042337.GA15060-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-28 14:13 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-28 14:13 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-28 17:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-01-28 17:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20090128173618.GA3174-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-28 17:44 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-28 17:44 ` Jonathan Corbet
[not found] ` <20090128104414.09aee3f9-vw3g6Xz/EtPk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-28 17:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-01-28 17:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20090128175541.GA7074-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-28 18:13 ` Matt Mackall
2009-01-28 18:13 ` Matt Mackall
2009-01-28 21:05 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-28 21:05 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-28 18:14 ` David Daney
2009-01-28 18:14 ` David Daney
2009-01-29 14:37 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-29 14:37 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-23 5:15 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-23 5:15 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-23 5:31 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-23 5:31 ` Andrew Morton
[not found] ` <20090122213105.74142908.akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-23 5:45 ` Matt Mackall
2009-01-23 5:45 ` Matt Mackall
2009-01-23 6:15 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-23 6:15 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-23 10:45 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2009-01-23 5:54 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-23 5:54 ` Andi Kleen
[not found] ` <20090123055404.GL15750-qrUzlfsMFqo/4alezvVtWx2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-23 6:01 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-23 6:01 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-23 6:57 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-23 6:57 ` Andrew Morton
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