From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] block: remove BKL dependency from drivers/block/loop.c
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 08:32:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070103073226.GF11203@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061227115207.GA20721@elte.hu>
On Wed, Dec 27 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Subject: [patch] block: remove BKL dependency from drivers/block/loop.c
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
>
> the block loopback device is protected by lo->lo_ctl_mutex and it does
> not need to hold the BKL anywhere. Convert its ioctl to unlocked_ioctl
> and remove the BKL acquire/release from its compat_ioctl.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-03 7:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-27 11:52 [patch] block: remove BKL dependency from drivers/block/loop.c Ingo Molnar
2006-12-27 15:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-03 7:32 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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