Re: [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325

Andi Kleen
2009-01-23T04:41:35Z

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 03:32:49PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:51:04AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > OK, replacing a lock_kernel() with a spin_lock(&global_lock) is pretty
> > straightforwad. But it's really really sad. It basically leaves a great
> > big FIXME in there. It'd be better to fix it.
>
>
> Umm, we've been discussiong this in and out a guestimated million times.
>
> Let's go forward with Jon's patch which is on obvious improvement and
> if it shows problems later on we can revisit it.

The point was that we already have a better patch from Oleg.

-Andi
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