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Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 16:54:03 +0200
From: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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Subject: Re: [announce] "kill the Big Kernel Lock (BKL)" tree
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El Thu, 15 May 2008 10:44:57 +0200 (CEST), Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> escribió:

> 1b: add a .locked_open and move all BKL-requiring code to use that.
> When time comes and BKL is gone, .locked_open can be removed again,
> and no rename was ever done for BKL-free code.

1c: make the BKL-unsafe drivers depend on !SMP && !PREEMPT.