linux-kernel - Re: use persistent allocation for cursor blinking.

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Message-ID: <adairlc5ktk.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:15:35 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: use persistent allocation for cursor blinking.

 > Every time the console cursor blinks, we do a kmalloc/kfree pair.
 > This patch turns that into a single allocation.

A naive question from someone who knows nothing about this subsystem:
is there any possibility of concurrent calls into this function, for
example if there are multiple cursors on a multiheaded system?

 - R.
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