From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:09:35 +0100 Message-ID: <20090122160935.GI15750@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20090115153211.663df310@bike.lwn.net> <20090122065104.2787df2d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090122065104.2787df2d.akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jonathan Corbet , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, andi-Vw/NltI1exuRpAAqCnN02g@public.gmane.org, viro-3bDd1+5oDREiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org, oleg-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, alan-qBU/x9rampVanCEyBjwyrvXRex20P6io@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org > OK, replacing a lock_kernel() with a spin_lock(&global_lock) is pretty > straightforwad. But it's really really sad. It basically leaves a great > big FIXME in there. It'd be better to fix it. Also it might be that it's even worse than the BKL. > > We don't have a handy lock in struct file which could be borrowed. > > - We could add one > > - We could borrow file->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_lock > > - We could convert that field to long and use bitops (sounds nice?) It would still require a bitlock because some state in the low level fasync needs to be protected. Oleg has a proposal to do this using a flag bit which seemed reasonable to me. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html