From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325 Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:56:46 +0100 Message-ID: <20090123045646.GK15750@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20090115153211.663df310@bike.lwn.net> <20090122065104.2787df2d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090122203248.GA20159@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090122203248.GA20159-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Andrew Morton , 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 On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 03:32:49PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:51:04AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > 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. > > > Umm, we've been discussiong this in and out a guestimated million times. > > Let's go forward with Jon's patch which is on obvious improvement and > if it shows problems later on we can revisit it. The point was that we already have a better patch from Oleg. -Andi -- ak-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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