From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VT locking
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:16:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040106121636.GA888@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1073349182.9504.175.camel@gaston>
Hi!
> The VT code is currently, it seems, full of races, it basically doesn't
> do any locking... This patch is definitely not fixing everything,
> but at
And the races bite, BTW. For years I was seeing weird stuff like
console output on blanked console if scroll happened at approximately
same time as blank. It was hard to reproduce reliably, through.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-06 12:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-06 0:33 [PATCH] VT locking Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-01-06 12:16 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-01-06 16:31 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-01-06 21:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-01-06 22:00 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-06 23:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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2004-01-06 0:17 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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