From: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
To: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"jesper.juhl@gmail.com" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty reference count fix
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:20:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43F12248.7070608@microgate.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43F119FC.10900@microgate.com>
Paul Fulghum wrote:
> Your patch leaves the schedule() call at the bottom of
> the while loop between setting tty_closing and
> setting TTY_CLOSING flag.
Nevermind. After schedule() the count is reread,
so you are right. Dropping tty_sem altogether
would work.
It is a matter of where you ultimately wish to
push the locking to BKL or tty_sem.
--
Paul Fulghum
Microgate Systems, Ltd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-14 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-13 20:13 [PATCH] tty reference count fix Paul Fulghum
2006-02-13 22:15 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-13 23:21 ` Paul Fulghum
2006-02-13 22:51 ` Jason Baron
2006-02-13 23:45 ` Paul Fulghum
2006-02-14 0:20 ` Paul Fulghum [this message]
2006-02-14 21:46 ` Arjan van de Ven
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