linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6 RFC] arch/m68knommu/kernel/process.c: Remove the BKL from sys

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Message-ID: <4AD6611D.8040407@snapgear.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:39:09 +1000
From:	Greg Ungerer <gerg@...pgear.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Vincent Sanders <vince@...tec.co.uk>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Greg Ungerer <gerg@...inux.org>,
	Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@...panasonic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6 RFC] arch/m68knommu/kernel/process.c: Remove the BKL
 from sys_execve

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>> On 10/13/2009 08:34 AM, John Kacur wrote:
>>>> From e36c53d296132bc0ddbf6d9fb43ea5ea56dbd4a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: John Kacur<jkacur@...hat.com>
>>> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:37:28 +0200
>>> Subject: [PATCH] arch/m68knommu/kernel/process.c: Remove the BKL from
>>> sys_execve
>>>
>>> This looks like a copy-and-paste of functionality that no-longer needs the
>>> bkl.
>>> Just remove it.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: John Kacur<jkacur@...hat.com>
>> Tested and runs fine on m68knommu.
>>
>> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@...inux.org>
>>
>> Do you want me to push this into the m68knommu git tree,
>> for eventual merging into Linus' tree?  Or are you going
>> to push the whole set of patches together?
> 
> I'm collecting and pushing the BKL stuff, but if you want to take it
> just let me know and I drop it.

Would make more sense to keep it all together I think.
So you take it.

Regards
Greg


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