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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] BKL not necessary in cpuid_open
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 22:13:41 +0200
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On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 08:19:32PM +0200, John Kacur wrote:
> 
> I've been staring at the BKL lock in cpuid_open, and I can't see what it 
> is protecting. However, I may have missed something - even something 
> obvious, so comments are welcome.
> 
> From 25c0f07b3ec5533c0e690e06198baa4300ee4a8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:06:12 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] The BKL is not necessary in cpuid_open
>  Most of the variables are local to the function. It IS possible that for
>  struct cpuinfo_x86 *c
>  c could point to the same area. However, this is used read only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>


Hmm, I'm discovering that in tip:rt/kill-the-bkl

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=commitdiff;h=55968ede164ae523692f00717f50cd926f1382a0

Looks like we have overlaped.

Thomas it would be nice to post these patches on LKML (or I missed
them?) and may be to merge them into tip:master, so that they are
visible and then we lower the risk of any duplicate works in this area.

Thanks.