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From: David John <davidjon@xenontk.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	clemens@ladisch.de, venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com,
	vojtech@suse.cz, bob.picco@hp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HPET: Remove the BKL.
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:38:14 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EDE61E.7050908@xenontk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8763o2t5yu.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>

Andi Kleen wrote:
> David John <davidjon@xenontk.org> writes:
> 
>> Concurrent access is protected by the spin lock hpet_lock. The
>> BKL is not required.
> 
> You should probably also convert the .ioctl = ... to .unlocked_ioctl.
> Otherwise you still got implicit BKL for the ioctls.
> 
> -Andi
> 

Thanks. I'll fix it up.

David.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-09 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-09  8:55 [PATCH] HPET: Remove the BKL David John
2008-10-09 10:31 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-09 11:08   ` David John [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-09 11:22 David John
2008-10-09 12:59 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-09 14:30   ` David John
2008-10-10  8:00 David John

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