linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325

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Message-Id: <20090127165504.53ed7a2d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:55:04 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	hch@...radead.org, corbet@....net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	andi@...stfloor.org, viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, oleg@...hat.com,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:56:46 +0100
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 03:32:49PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:51:04AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > OK, replacing a lock_kernel() with a spin_lock(&global_lock) is pretty
> > > straightforwad.  But it's really really sad.  It basically leaves a great
> > > big FIXME in there.  It'd be better to fix it.
> > 
> > 
> > Umm, we've been discussiong this in and out a guestimated million times.
> > 
> > Let's go forward with Jon's patch which is on obvious improvement and
> > if it shows problems later on we can revisit it.
> 
> The point was that we already have a better patch from Oleg.
> 

Where is this patch?
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