Re: [PATCH v5] HPET: Remove the BKL.

[David John <davidjon@xenontk.org>]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * David John <davidjon@xenontk.org> wrote:
> 
>> Remove calls to the BKL as concurrent access is protected
>> by the spinlock hpet_lock.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David John <davidjon@xenontk.org>
>> ---
>>  drivers/char/hpet.c |   41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>>  1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> this patch still needs to add locking documentation commits to hpet.c, 
> which shows that you considered all the locking changes that happen due 
> to dropping the BKL. Most of this code runs very rarely so there's 
> little chance that races will be caught in practice in any debuggable 
> manner.
> 
> 	Ingo
> 

Ok, will do this. Can you also check the RTC patch I sent that removes
the BKL from the RTC user space driver? The locking is already done,
only the BKL calls needed to be removed.

David.