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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [RFC 9/9] tty: implement BTM as mutex instead of BKL
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:50:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100330225038.GA5817@nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1269982580-9361-10-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de>

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:56:20PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> +config TTY_MUTEX
> +	bool "Use a mutex instead of BKL for TTY locking"
> +	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && SMP


You still need it on UP-PREEMPT.

The bkl disables preemption so you need to "reproduce"
this atomicity by locking your path.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-30 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-30 20:56 [RFC 0/9] BKL conversion in TTY drivers Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-30 20:56 ` [RFC 1/9] tty: replace BKL with a new tty_lock Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-30 22:23   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-30 20:56 ` [RFC 2/9] tty: make atomic_write_lock release tty_lock Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-30 20:56 ` [RFC 3/9] tty: make tty_port->mutex nest under tty_lock Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-30 20:56 ` [RFC 4/9] tty: make termios mutex " Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-30 20:56 ` [RFC 5/9] tty: make ldisc_mutex " Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-30 20:56 ` [RFC 6/9] tty: never hold tty_lock() while getting tty_mutex Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-30 20:56 ` [RFC 7/9] ppp: use big tty mutex Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-31  4:37   ` Américo Wang
2010-03-31  7:39     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-30 20:56 ` [RFC 8/9] tty: release tty lock when blocking Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-30 20:56 ` [RFC 9/9] tty: implement BTM as mutex instead of BKL Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-30 22:50   ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2010-03-30 22:37 ` [RFC 0/9] BKL conversion in TTY drivers Alan Cox
2010-03-31  7:57   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-31 10:02     ` Alan Cox
2010-04-01 12:51       ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-01 14:17         ` Alan Cox
2010-04-01 15:24           ` Greg KH
2010-04-01 19:10           ` Arnd Bergmann

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