linux-kernel - Re: [announce] "kill the Big Kernel Lock (BKL)" tree

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Date:	Thu, 15 May 2008 16:54:03 +0200
From:	Diego Calleja <diegocg@...il.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
Cc:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [announce] "kill the Big Kernel Lock (BKL)" tree

El Thu, 15 May 2008 10:44:57 +0200 (CEST), Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de> escribió:

> 1b: add a .locked_open and move all BKL-requiring code to use that.
> When time comes and BKL is gone, .locked_open can be removed again,
> and no rename was ever done for BKL-free code.

1c: make the BKL-unsafe drivers depend on !SMP && !PREEMPT.
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