Re: [PATCH 2/3] pty: Lock the devpts bits privately

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

On 05/03/2012 02:22 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
> 
> This is a private pty affair, we don't want to tangle it with the tty_lock
> any more as we know all the other non tty locking is now handled by the vfs
> so we too can move.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>

> +		        mutex_lock(&devpts_mutex);
>  			devpts_pty_kill(tty->link);
> +		        mutex_unlock(&devpts_mutex);

> +	mutex_lock(&devpts_mutex);
> +	tty = devpts_get_tty(pts_inode, idx);
> +	mutex_unlock(&devpts_mutex);

> +	mutex_lock(&devpts_mutex);
>  	tty = tty_init_dev(ptm_driver, index);
> +	mutex_unlock(&devpts_mutex);

Conceptually this seems fine, but it would seem cleaner to me to push
this mutex into the called functions in devpts; I suspect the lock could
be eliminated or at least be made per instance there (which would make
massive-container people happy...)

	-hpa

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