From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty_ioctl: locking for tty_wait_until_sent
Date: 10 Mar 2008 23:12:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87od9m5iu4.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080310215325.2b8d33e8@core>
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> This function still depends on the big kernel lock in some cases. Push
> locking into the function ready for removal of the BKL from ioctl call
> paths.
Didn't you forget the .ioctl -> .unlocked_ioctl change?
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-10 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-10 21:53 [PATCH] tty_ioctl: locking for tty_wait_until_sent Alan Cox
2008-03-10 22:12 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-03-10 22:06 ` Alan Cox
2008-03-10 22:28 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-10 23:16 ` Jiri Slaby
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