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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] BKL conversion in tty layer
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 08:30:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100517153055.GA28137@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100517144130.1d8aa313@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 02:41:30PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 15 May 2010 22:59:46 +0200
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> 
> > This is the third attempt to get the BKL out of the
> > TTY code. This version goes much further than the
> > previous one, and eliminates most of the code I
> > had introduced there.
> 
> At this point I think the only way to make further progress is to
> actually push this stuff into the kernel on top of the BKL removal
> patches for the drivers and see what happens. Something will no doubt
> break but we can try and nail them in time or if not revert the series
> and try again next kernel.
> 
> The big nasty remaining after this is drivers/serial, which probably
> wants some serious reconstructive surgery to use kfifo etc. Either way
> its an independent problem to the stuff this lot tackles.
> 
> So this series
> 
> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>

I'd prefer to do this for .36, not for .35.  Arnd, I'll be glad to queue
these patches up to the tty development tree after .35-rc1 is out, so it
gets lots of testing in the linux-next tree, is that ok?  If so, can you
resend them to me at that time?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-17 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-15 20:59 [PATCH v3 00/10] BKL conversion in tty layer Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-15 20:59 ` [PATCH 01/10] tty: replace BKL with a new tty_lock Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-15 20:59 ` [PATCH 02/10] tty: never hold BTM while getting tty_mutex Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-15 20:59 ` [PATCH 03/10] tty: fix console_sem lock order Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-15 20:59 ` [PATCH 04/10] cdc-acm: remove dead code Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-15 20:59 ` [PATCH 05/10] tty: introduce wait_event_interruptible_tty Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-15 20:59 ` [PATCH 06/10] tty: annotate tty_write_lock Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-15 20:59 ` [PATCH 07/10] tty: reorder ldisc locking Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-15 20:59 ` [PATCH 08/10] tty: untangle locking of wait_until_sent Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-16  3:12   ` Daniel K.
2010-05-15 20:59 ` [PATCH 09/10] tty: remove tty_lock_nested Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-15 20:59 ` [PATCH 10/10] tty: implement BTM as mutex instead of BKL Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-16  3:33   ` Daniel K.
2010-05-16 12:58     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-17 13:41 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] BKL conversion in tty layer Alan Cox
2010-05-17 15:30   ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-05-17 18:30     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-18  4:27       ` Greg KH
2010-05-18 21:52         ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-19  1:50           ` Greg KH
2010-05-22 13:54             ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-17 18:49   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-17 19:13   ` Tony Luck
2010-06-17 19:40     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-17 20:15       ` Tony Luck
2010-06-17 21:48         ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-17 22:09           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-06-18 12:58             ` [PATCH] tty: avoid recursive BTM in pty_close Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-18 16:21               ` Alan Cox
2010-06-18 16:52                 ` Tony Luck
2010-06-18 18:35                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-18 20:25                     ` Tony Luck
2010-06-19 12:32                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-19 20:29                         ` [PATCH] serial: revert "Use block_til_ready helper" Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-19 21:57                           ` Alan Cox
2010-06-20 20:54                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-21 14:13                               ` Alan Cox
2010-06-21 20:57                                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-21 20:58                                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-21 17:11                           ` Tony Luck
2010-06-22 23:01                           ` Greg KH
2010-06-28 17:17                     ` [PATCH] tty: avoid recursive BTM in pty_close Tony Luck
2010-06-28 19:03                       ` Arnd Bergmann

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