From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:53:59 -0800 Message-ID: <20090127165359.d6b95b52.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20090115153211.663df310@bike.lwn.net> <20090122065104.2787df2d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090122203248.GA20159@infradead.org> <20090123045646.GK15750@one.firstfloor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090123045646.GK15750-qrUzlfsMFqo/4alezvVtWx2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Cc: hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org, corbet-T1hC0tSOHrs@public.gmane.org, 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.orgOleg Nesterov List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:56:46 +0100 Andi Kleen wrote: > 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. > Where is this patch??