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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:23:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090128042337.GA15060@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090127205739.1384343f@bike.lwn.net>

On 01/27, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:14:39 +0100
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > I'll try to make the patch tomorrow, but the problem is that I am not
> > sure this is not too ugly.
>
> FWIW, I'm partway through a new attempt using bitops for f_flags, moving
> FASYNC flag handling into fasync_helper(), and doing away with
> additional locks altogether.  I have to get past the publication
> deadline before I can finish it, though.

Great. I'd be happy to agree with another approach.

But please don't forget it is not strictly necessary f_op->fasync()
must use fasync_helper(). And we have users (pipe_rdwr_fasync) which
call fasync_helper() twice.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-28  4:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-15 22:32 [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325 Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-22 14:51 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-22 16:09   ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-23  5:21     ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-22 20:32   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-01-23  4:56     ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-28  0:53       ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-28  0:55       ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-28  3:14         ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-01-28  3:57           ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-28  4:23             ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2009-01-28 14:13               ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-28 17:36           ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-01-28 17:44             ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-28 17:55               ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-01-28 18:13                 ` Matt Mackall
2009-01-28 21:05                   ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-28 18:14             ` David Daney
2009-01-29 14:37             ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-23  5:15   ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-23  5:31     ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-23  5:45       ` Matt Mackall
2009-01-23  6:15         ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-23 10:45           ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2009-01-23  5:54       ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-23  6:01         ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-23  6:57         ` Andrew Morton

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