From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: David John <davidjon@xenontk.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 12:31:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8763o2t5yu.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1223542535-3272-1-git-send-email-davidjon@xenontk.org> (David John's message of "Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:25:35 +0530")
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
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ak@linux.intel.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-09 10:31 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 [this message]
2008-10-09 11:08 ` David John
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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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