From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261956AbUAFMPN (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2004 07:15:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262040AbUAFMPN (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2004 07:15:13 -0500 Received: from gprs214-240.eurotel.cz ([160.218.214.240]:32642 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261956AbUAFMPL (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2004 07:15:11 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:16:36 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Linux Kernel list , Linux Fbdev development list , Andrew Morton , James Simmons Subject: Re: [PATCH] VT locking Message-ID: <20040106121636.GA888@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1073349182.9504.175.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1073349182.9504.175.camel@gaston> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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?]