linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] [v2] Remaining BKL users, what to do

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Message-Id: <201010191536.33373.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:36:33 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	ksummit-2010-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] [v2] Remaining BKL users, what to do

[trimming Cc list]

On Tuesday 19 October 2010, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> I think we also need to cover the PREEMPT case too. But that could be a
> compile time check, since you can't boot a preempt kernel and make it
> non preempt.

Right. Can we turn the lock_kernel() into preempt_disable() in these
drivers when we know we never run on SMP?

	Arnd
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