From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH] VT locking Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:16:36 +0100 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20040106121636.GA888@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1073349182.9504.175.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Adq7D-0003oP-7F for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 06 Jan 2004 04:15:19 -0800 Received: from gprs214-240.eurotel.cz ([160.218.214.240] helo=amd.ucw.cz) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Adq7A-0007ad-O6 for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 06 Jan 2004 04:15:19 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1073349182.9504.175.camel@gaston> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Linux Kernel list , Linux Fbdev development list , Andrew Morton , James Simmons 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 -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click