linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1

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Date:	Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:19:09 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	trem <tremyfr@...oo.fr>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1


* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> >  It would be sweet to have them use private mutexes for the job 
> > instead (although even then it probably wouldn't be a straight 
> > conversion)...
> 
> I tried a quick conversion of reiser3 at the time, but it really wants 
> a recursive lock and I couldn't be bothered to fix a 'legacy' 
> filesystem so I just gave up and converted the filesystem to XFS.

as long as the only requirement is recursion, and not any of the other 
BKL properties, that could be wrapped. I guess fixing the TTY code to 
have no BKL dependencies has a higher chance of success - given that 
Alan is working on it :-)

	Ingo
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