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Message-Id: <1154470813.15540.95.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:20:13 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: use persistent allocation for cursor blinking.
Ar Maw, 2006-08-01 am 12:15 -0700, ysgrifennodd Roland Dreier:
> > Every time the console cursor blinks, we do a kmalloc/kfree pair.
> > This patch turns that into a single allocation.
>
> A naiive 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?
We don't do console multihead so its basically OK. Moving all the
console globals into a struct so we can have multiple instances would be
a good thing [tm] and it would make sense for the variable to end up in
said structure if it was done.
Definitely a janitor job there.
Alan
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