[RFC PATCH 0/5] tty BKL pushdown

Alan Cox
2009-11-18T14:40:23Z

First steps to pushing the BKL down further into the tty layer. For review and
analysis not application !

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Alan Cox (5):
tty: split the lock up a bit further
tty: Move the leader test in disassociate
tty: Push the bkl down a bit in the hangup code
tty: Push the lock down further into the ldisc code
tty: push the BKL down into the handlers a bit

drivers/char/pty.c | 2 -
drivers/char/tty_io.c | 150 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c | 23 ++++++-
include/linux/tty.h | 2 -
kernel/exit.c | 2 -
5 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)